R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: Oh, I see. Yes, that is a problem.
object.__format__ knows the type of the object it was called on, right? Couldn't it catch the error and re-raise it with the correct type? (If the type isn't str, of course, we don't want to get into an infinite recursion.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13790> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com