Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: Unfortunately I think it's too late to do anything about this. I, for one, have many lines of code in production that use the strftime format specifier for datetime.__format__.
You only option would be to invent a new language that was somehow distinguishable from the strftime specifiers, but I doubt you'd get much support. I think it's better to extend strftime, and let __format__ benefit from it. ---------- versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8913> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
