Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 17:13 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit : > Antoine Pitrou writes: > > Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 13:58 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull a > > écrit : > > > 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. > > > > As far as I understand, Alexander was talking about a legacy pre-unicode > > text format. We don't have to support this. > > *I* didn't say we *should* support it. I'm saying that *others'* > argument for not restricting the formats accepting by string to number > converters to something well-defined and AFAIK universally understood > by users (developers of Python programs *and* end-users) is that we > *already* support this.
As far as I can parse your sentence, I think you are mistaken. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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