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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:53 +0100
Subject: Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
To: Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com>
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On 22 May 2013 23:31, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> wrote:
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> I still don't understand why % benefits from literals optimization ("'%d'%12345") while '{:d}'.format(12345) doesn't.

There's no reason why that optimisation can't happen in principle.
However no one has written a patch for it. Why don't you look into
what it would take to make it happen?


Oscar