[Python-Dev] [format] Restrict fill characters for numerical values (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan-usenet at bytereef.org
Wed Nov 11 14:34:33 CET 2009


Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org> wrote:

I simply think that apart from rounding, the output of format should not change the numerical value of its argument. The format functions in C do not allow this to happen. Are there other languages where this is possible?

Actually there are other cases: strfmon() allows this, too. Let's drop it.

Stefan Krah



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