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Fri Jun 27 00:37:01 CEST 2008 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080761.html

Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Let me remind you that %a currently means "call ascii()" in 3.0.
> 
> Oh well.  That's out then.  I'll rephrase to "I'd be delighted with something
> similar in spirit to '%a' support."  :-)

It could be added to str.format().  Well, actually float.__format__(). 
Not that I'm advocating it, but it's a place it would fit, and since 
it's restricted to the float format specifier, it would at least be well 
contained.  And other types are free to implement it, or not.

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