Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Ray.Allen wrote: > > Ray.Allen <ysj....@gmail.com> added the comment: > > I feel it's not proper to allow the width restrict on types %S, %R, %A. These > types correspond to PyObject_Str(), PyObject_Repr, PyObject_ASCII() > respectively, the results of them are usually a complete string > representation of a object. If you put a width restriction on the string, > it's likely that the result string is intercepted and is of no complete > meaning. If you really want to put a width restriction on the result, you can > use %s instead, with one or two more lines to get the corresponding char* > from the object.
I agree with that, but don't feel strongly about not allowing this use case. If it's easy to support, why not have it ? Otherwise, I'd be +1 on adding a check and raise an error in case a width modifier is used with these markers. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7330> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
