[Python-Dev] Adding Unicode methods to string objects

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 07 Mar 2000 18:42:53 +0100


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > > > zfill
> > >
> > > no.
> >
> > Why not ?
> 
> Zfill is (or ought to be) deprecated.  It stems from times before we
> had things like "%08d" % x and no longer serves a useful purpose.
> I doubt anyone would miss it.
> 
> (Of course, now /F will claim that PIL will break in 27 places because
> of this. :-)

Ok, I'll remove it from both implementations again... (there
was some email overlap).

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