On 2007-12-12, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Guido van Rossum added the comment:
>
> Again, a (not unreasonable) feature request.  AFAIK %e behaves the same
> way.  I'm sure if you submitted a patch it would be accepted happily.

Unfortunately, I can't---I haven't programmed C in more than a decade,
and don't know Python's C API, so I doubt I could write anything in C
that would actually work! Nowadays I only program in Python and C++:-)