[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r61403 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS

Sat Mar 15 19:49:09 CET 2008

 Nick> %f makes me think femtoseconds :)
Not fraction?
 Nick> Any particular reason we can't use '%u' to align with the
 Nick> convention of abbreviating microseconds as 'us' when a character
 Nick> encoding doesn't provide convenient access to the Greek letter mu?
 Nick> (e.g. ASCII)
Well, %u is already in use by at least some implementations of strftime.
>From the Solaris 10 man page:

 %u Weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1
 representing Monday. See NOTES below.
I see the same on my Mac.
I think it's better to use the same format code for both parsing and
formatting if possible.
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