[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/2/07, Joel Bender <jjb5 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > My personal suggestion is to stay close to the .NET formatting language
>
> If Microsoft formatting ideas are going to be used, why not use the
> Excel language?  In my mind it's not any worse than any other string of
> characters with special meanings.  It's widely understood (mostly),
> clearly documented (kinda), and I think the date and time formatting is
> clearer than strftime.
>
> I would expect [Red] to be omitted.

You may be overestimating how widely it understood it is. I betcha
that most Python programmers have never heard of it. I certainly have
no idea what the Excel language is (and I've had Excel on my various
laptops for about a decade).

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