On 27.10.16 02:44, Eric V. Smith wrote:
But on the other hand, the existing behavior is well specified and has
been around since object.__format__ was added. I'm not sure it needs
changing. What's the harm in leaving it?
More complicated code. And maybe this behavior is less intuitive. It
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On 27Oct2016 0251, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
On 27.10.16 02:44, Eric V. Smith wrote:
But on the other hand, the existing behavior is well specified and has
been around since object.__format__ was added. I'm not sure it needs
changing. What's the harm in leaving it?
More complicated code. And may
On 27.10.16 19:59, Steve Dower wrote:
Having the default __format__ behave like this makes me happiest:
def __format__(self, fmt):
return format(str(self), fmt)
My 2c. YMMV. etc.
See issue7994 [1] for arguments against this.
[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue7994
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