Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
Fixing-up str formatting idiosyncracies does not fall under the moratorium and is helpful in getting 3.x to be usable. That being said, I'm not convinced that this is actually a helpful feature. Not all objects supporting __getitem__ offer support for negative indexing. Also, there's a case to be made that using negative indices in a formatting string is an anti-pattern, causing more harm than good. ---------- keywords: -after moratorium, patch versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7951> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
