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Author	barry
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, docs@python, eric.smith, lemburg, lukasz.langa, r.david.murray
Date	2010-11-12.00:25:35
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Message-id	<20101111192526.39c3ff9a@mission>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:15 AM, R. David Murray wrote: >Now, from the perspective of a user of the locale module, I fail to see the >point in having both 'format' and 'format_string' exposed. If you want to >format a single % specifier, just pass it to format_string. Thus my >suggestion to make them both do the same thing (to cater to other code that >may be calling format incorrectly) and then deprecate one of them (presumably >format). +1 >To bad I didn't think of that when I fixed the original bug. Dang.

On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:15 AM, R. David Murray wrote:

>Now, from the perspective of a *user* of the locale module, I fail to see the
>point in having both 'format' and 'format_string' exposed.  If you want to
>format a single % specifier, just pass it to format_string.  Thus my
>suggestion to make them both do the same thing (to cater to other code that
>may be calling format incorrectly) and then deprecate one of them (presumably
>format).

+1

>To bad I didn't think of that when I fixed the original bug.

Dang.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-11-12 00:25:37	barry	set	recipients: + barry, lemburg, amaury.forgeotdarc, eric.smith, r.david.murray, docs@python, lukasz.langa
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2010-11-12 00:25:35	barry	create