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Author gvanrossum
Recipients ThiefMaster, abarry, ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, mrabarnett
Date 2016-01-09.21:44:43
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Yes, the C code pretty much always uses %.<number><format>, in order to
protect itself from buffer overflows. Pulling off an unabbreviated str()
here would be a major piece of work.
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