Changes by Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org:
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title: Unicode fill characters no longer work in numeric formatting -
non-ascii fill characters no longer work in numeric formatting
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Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org
Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
I assume this is left over from the PEP 393 changes. I think the right thing to
do is delete this code from line 277 of formatter_unicode.c:
if (format-fill_char 127 || format-align 127 ||
format-sign 127) {
STINNER Victor victor.stin...@haypocalc.com added the comment:
I assume this is left over from the PEP 393 changes.
Correct.
I'm not sure such a restriction needs to exist any more.
The restriction was introduced to simplify the implementation. maxchar has to
be computed exactly in
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
Removing the if condition would be incorrect. The maximum char is computed at
the beginning of the formatting. If, during formatting, need for a padding
character is determined, the padding character must not be larger than the
maximum
