[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming

Fri Aug 10 01:24:13 CEST 2007

> Talin wrote:
>>In other words, other than the special case of 'repr', we find that 
>>pretty much everything can fit into a single specifier string;

I think there might still be merit in separating the
field width and alignment spec, at least syntactically,
since all format specs will have it and it should have
a uniform syntax across all of them, and it would be
good if it didn't have to be parsed by all the __format__
methods individually.
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