[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Aug 11 07:08:29 CEST 2007


Ron Adam wrote:
>
> Greg Ewing wrote:
 >
> > Then why not just return an empty string?
> 
> Because an empty string is a valid string.  It can be expanded to a 
> minimum width which me may not want to do.

I'm not seeing a use case for this. If the user says
he wants his field a certain minimum width, what
business does the type have overriding that?

--
Greg


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