> I DO like Don Beaudry's interpretation of %(<name>)<format> as an
> extension of format strings (except I take objection to copying the
> key to an array of fixed size :-)
I still like it, but believe it would be ever so more useful if there
were a format specifier that took ANY type of object and converted it
to a string using str(). I can think of two options:
1) introduce %p (with the same options as %s) -- the mnemonic of
course means "any Python object". (In ANSI C %p means pointer but
this doesn't make sense in Python.)
2) change %s so that if its argument isn't a string it converts ot to
one using str().
What do you think?
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