Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Eric Smith<e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
Hmm, I never noticed that. At this point, I think changing the formatting
for any types would break code, so we should just change the documentation
to reflect how currently works.
I think the alignment for Decimal *does* need to be changed, though. It
currently left-aligns by default (my fault: I just blindly followed PEP 3101
without thinking too hard about it). I'd like to fix this for 3.2 and 2.7; I'm
not sure whether it's too disruptive to fix it in 3.1 and 2.6.
Right, not changing "any types" was too strong. I think that the numeric
types should all default to right alignment. That means Decimal should
change. I agree this should only be in 3.2 and 2.7. In addition, PEP
3101 and the documentation should be change to reflect the default right
alignment for numeric types.
Shame on you, Mark, for actually reading and implementing the specs! ;)
You see that I didn't bother with that. At the time, I think I was
trying to get str.format() to exactly agree with %-formatting.
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