[Python-3000] PEP 3101 clarification requests

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/20/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > But how often will you need this? (You only need the !s part if you
> > don't know that the argument is a string.)
>
> Maybe I'm confused. I thought we had agreed that most
> types would delegate to str if they didn't understand
> the format, so most of the time there wouldn't be any
> need to use "!s". Is that still true?

Yes, by virtue of this being what object.__format__ does (AFAIU).

> If not, I think it will be very inconvenient, as I
> very frequently format things of all sorts of types
> using "%s", and rely on it doing something reasonable.

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