Eric Smith wrote:
Vinay Sajip wrote:
BTW I sent Eric a private mail re. the "0o" versus "0" issue, to see
if it was
worth raising an enhancement request on the bug tracker using "O" to
generate
compatible rendering for octals.
I didn't get your message, could you resend?.
I was thinking the same thing, but it seems like a transition step. I'd
rather not keep such backward compatibility hacks (if you will) around
for the long haul. How about a flag (maybe '*') at the start of the
format specification which says "operate in backward compatibility
mode"? We could document it as being only useful for the % to {}
translator, and promise to remove it at some point in the future. Either
actually deprecate it or just promise to deprecate it in the future.
I think the flag should be '%'.
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