Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Complex would be the first one. But that doesn't really bother me.
It bothers me a little. I see '' as a special case of the empty presentation type, even if that's not what a strict reading of PEP 3101 says, so I expect '', '>' '<20' all to format the number in the same way, and only differ in their treatment of alignment and padding. That is, adding a '>' to the start of a format specifier shouldn't change the formatting of the number itself. So from this perspective, it seems better if format(x, '') ends up doing the same thing as str(x) as a result of the choices made for the empty presentation type, rather than as a result of special-casing ''. > Although I guess if we wanted to, we could say that the empty > presentation type is equivalent to 'g', but gives you parens. This works for me. [about suppressing real zeros...] > Again, we could say that the empty presentation type is > different in this regard. Makes sense. Does treating the empty presentation type as special this way add much extra complication to the implementation? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1588> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
