Eric Smith wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Moving the decision of "how am I going to be called" to the time of >> writing the format string is a bit odd. >> >> On the other hand, the specially crafted format string does have the >> virtue of travelling far more easily through any APIs that wrap the >> basic format() method (since it doesn't need special treatment to make >> its way through the wrapping code). > > Completely agree on all points. Now we're just left with "is it worth > expanding the str api for this?". I don't feel strongly either way.
For something as core as the string API, we better feel darn strongly about it before we mess with it :) I'm inclined to leave it alone unless/until Raymond or somebody else steps up to really champion it. Cheers, Nick. P.S. There's also the language moratorium to consider - since this idea affect the methods of a builtin type, I believe the moratorium applies. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
