Antoine Pitrou writes: > The legacy format argument looks like a red herring to me. When > converting from a format to another it is the programmer's job to > his/her job right.
Uhmmmmmm, the argument *for* this "feature" proposed by several people is that Python's numeric constructors do it (right) so that the programmer doesn't have to. If Python *doesn't* do it right, why should Python do it at all? _______________________________________________ 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
