[Python-3000] PEP 3101 str.format() equivalent of '%#o/x/X'?

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 08:07:28 CEST 2008


Eric Smith wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
> This sort of surprised me when I was writing tests.  Even after having 
> implemented it, I was expecting "-#x" to work, but it needs to be "#-x".

If you can implement it either way, then after the sign character is 
probably the way to go (as Bruce pointed out, that's where the base 
indication will actually be inserted).

Cheers,
Nick.

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