On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Atsuo Ishimoto wrote: >> >>> I'm not comfortable with "printable", too. Is "legible" better? This >>> is first time for me to see this word in my life :). >> >> The term "printable" has a long history in computing of >> meaning that a character code corresponds to some visual >> glyph, even if the display process involved isn't literally >> printing. It would be confusing to replace it with something >> else now, I think. > > Agreed. I'm +1 on everything the PEP specifies. I'll accept it > tomorrow. Other developers, please review Atsuo's patch in > http://bugs.python.org/issue2630 . >
Thank you! Mark Summerfield suggested to add "!a" conversion flag to the str.format() method. I'll add the conversion flag to the patch and PEP later today. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
