text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg think many risks approach especially given keeping formatting mainly backwards compatibility reasons inevitably corner cases conversion doesnt work exactly way old code conversion wrong whatever reason would quite painful change back 26 cant support b wed apr 9 2008 454 pm eric smith wrote im working issue 2416 adding b formatting httpbugspythonorgissue2416 really quite pain especially 26 int long str unicode im contemplating making formatting compute new format string call strformat obj__format__ something appropriate proceed thought id ask see really offends anyone implementing terms strformat hope able delete lot duplication formatting code havent checked yet see whats possible real impetus issue 2416 though downside see strformat somewhat slower probably get around directly calling int__format__ float__format__ etc misleading microbenchmarks ive never really compared difference though _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000guido40pythonorg guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 053111 0700 python3000 implementing formatting terms strformat