[Python-Dev] Adding Unicode methods to string objects (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:38:18 -0500

> > zfill > > no.

Why not ?

Zfill is (or ought to be) deprecated. It stems from times before we had things like "%08d" % x and no longer serves a useful purpose. I doubt anyone would miss it.

(Of course, now /F will claim that PIL will break in 27 places because of this. :-)

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