Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: I think under the "we're all consenting adults" doctrine that it should be allowed. If you really want that behavior, why force the char*/%s dance at each call site when it's easy enough to do it in one place? I don't think anyone supplying a width would really be surprised that it would truncate the result and possibly break round-tripping through repr.
Besides, it's allowed in pure python code: >>> '%.5r' % object() '<obje' ---------- _______________________________________ 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
