James Y Knight <foom <at> fuhm.net> writes: > Using containment instead of inheritance makes sure none of the > *other* operations people do on strings will appear to work, at least > (substring, contains, etc). I bet explicitly calling str() on a format > string is even more rare than attempting to do those things.
Actually, logging calls str() on the object passed as the first argument in a logging call such as logger.debug(), which can either be a format string or an arbitrary object whose __str__() returns the format string. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
