Ray.Allen <ysj....@gmail.com> added the comment: You can write "%20s" as a argument for PyUnicode_FromFormat(), but it has no effect. The width and precision modifiers are not intended to apply to string formating(%s, %S, %R, %A), only apply to integer(%d, %u, %i, %x). Though you can write "%20s", but you cannot write "%20S", "%20R" and "%20A".
There can be several fixes: 1. make the presence of width and precision modifiers of %s, %S, %R, %A raise an Exception, like ValueError, instead of segment fault. 2. make the presence of width and precision modifiers of %s, %S, %R, %A have no effect, just like current %s. 3. make the presence of width and precision modifiers of %s, %S, %R, %A do have correct effect, like %r and %s in string formatting in python code. Thanks to Eric's ideas. Now I'm sure I prefer the last fix. I will work out a patch for this. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
