Eric V. Smith added the comment: I agree with David: It's unfortunate, but too late to change.
FWIW, since the goal is to replace just str.center, I'd write this as: def my_center(s, width): return format(s, '^' + str(width)) As soon as you're mixing in other formatting, then str.center couldn't have been used, anyway, so no sense bringing all of str.format to bear on the problem. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23624> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com