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[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010

[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010 [Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 04:33:05 CEST 2010
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
..
>>> How hard would it be to recode the sprintf language but with the
>>> locale fixed to "C"? That would always be ASCII.
>>
>> This is exactly what I proposed at
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue7584#msg110240 not so long ago.  Given
>> that stftime language uses every English letter as one of its codes
>> (both caps and lower case), it would be an effort, but coding it in
>> python should not be too hard.   A C implementation would be harder,
>> but there must be implementations around available under a suitable
>> license that can be reused.
>>
>> In short, definitely +1.
>
> For b"...".format() we could also support a subset (still better than
> hardcoding something str()-based).

It appears that the treasure trove that we call the bugs' tracker
already has a patch for that:

http://bugs.python.org/issue3173
http://bugs.python.org/file10704/strftime.diff
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