On 8/2/07, Joel Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My personal suggestion is to stay close to the .NET formatting language > > If Microsoft formatting ideas are going to be used, why not use the > Excel language? In my mind it's not any worse than any other string of > characters with special meanings. It's widely understood (mostly), > clearly documented (kinda), and I think the date and time formatting is > clearer than strftime. > > I would expect [Red] to be omitted.
You may be overestimating how widely it understood it is. I betcha that most Python programmers have never heard of it. I certainly have no idea what the Excel language is (and I've had Excel on my various laptops for about a decade). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
