Eric V. Smith added the comment: But int has its own __format__ method, so this does not apply. Per the title of this issue, this only refers to object.__format__.
For example: This works now, and will continue working: >>> format(2, '1') '2' This is currently an error, and will remain an error: >>> class C: pass ... >>> format(C(), '1') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: non-empty format string passed to object.__format__ It's this case that is currently an error, but it need not be: >>> format(object(), '1') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: non-empty format string passed to object.__format__ The more I think about it, the more I think it would be too confusing to make object.__format__ behave differently if self is of type object, versus another type. So I'll probably just close this as fixed unless someone feels strongly about it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9856> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
