Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Sun Dec 9 08:23:26 EST 2001

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Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:23:16 GMT, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> pisze:

>     i('X=', x, ', Y=', calc_y(x), '.')

It could be nice to have str() working like this instead.
It's backwards compatible with current 0- and 1-argument cases.

Except it doesn't work with unicode() which uses positional arguments
for other things (encoding) :-(  Mandating that they are keyword
arguments would break compatibility.

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