"Ulrich Eckhardt" <eck...aser.com> wrote: >IOW, why not explicitly say what you want using keyword arguments with >defaults instead of inventing an IMHO cryptic, read-only mini-language? >Seriously, the problem I see with this proposal is that its aim to be as >short as possible actually makes the resulting format specifications >unreadable. Could you even guess what "8T.,1f" should mean if you had not >written this?
+1 Look back in history, and see how COBOL did it with the PICTURE - dead easy and easily understandable. Compared to that, even the C printf stuff and python's % are incomprehensible. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
