On 1/10/2014 5:29 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:56:19 -0500 > "Eric V. Smith" <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: >> >> I agree. I don't see any reason to exclude int and float. See Guido's >> messages http://bugs.python.org/issue3982#msg180423 and >> http://bugs.python.org/issue3982#msg180430 for some justification and >> discussion. > > If you are representing int and float, you're really formatting a text > message, not bytes. Basically if you allow the formatting of int and > float instances, there's no reason not to allow the formatting of > arbitrary objects through __str__. It doesn't make sense to > special-case those two types and nothing else.
It might not for .format(), but I'm not convinced. But for %-formatting, str is already special-cased for these types. Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
