Greg Ewing wrote: > Ron Adam wrote: >> Truncating behavior is >> explicitly specified by giving a max_width size without a replacement >> character. >> I think that would be an extremely bad default for numbers. It's *not* a default. The default is to have no max_width. > > I believe they will learn fairly quickly what not to do. >> Even if that's true, why make the behaviour that's desirable > in the vast majority of cases more difficult to specify? >> -- > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > Python-3000 at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/rrr%40ronadam.com >>