New submission from Alex Leone acle...@gmail.com:
When using the '#' to prefix a numeric argument in format() with a '0x' or
others, the 0-width padding takes into account the '0x' characters. This is
unexpected - the 0-width should NOT take into account the prefix.
Current Behavior:
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
I disagree that your expected output is how it should behave. I believe it's
more likely that the user wants the entire field width specified. In addition,
compatibility with %-formatting would dictate that we keep the current behavior.
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Eric, I'm assuming you just forgot to close this. On the other hand, if you
wanted a +1 from another dev, you've got it :) Besides the considerations you
mentioned, changing this would be a significant backward incompatibility, and
is
