[Python-Dev] bpo-34595: How to format a type name? (original) (raw)

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Sep 11 21:57:09 EDT 2018

On 2018-09-12 02:00, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 09/11/2018 05:21 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

MRAB wrote on 9/11/18 16:06:

Perhaps we could have a single format code plus an optional '#' for the "alternate form":

%T for short form %#T for fully qualified name OTOH, if %T and variants meant "type" but %t mean something entirely different, that would probably be confusing. I think folks used to %-formatting are already used to un-related but similar codes (and related but dissimilar): - %M for minute - %m for month (or maybe I have that backwards) - %H for 24-hour clock - %I for 12-hour clock - %w for weekday as decimal number - %W for week number of the year I always have to look it up. :( Well, for the time of day (24-hour) it's %H:%M:%S, all uppercase.

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