astropy/astropy — Issue #148: Support both new and old-style string formatting in Table
Author: eteq
Created: 2012-02-07 00:28:26+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature Request, table

See the discussion in #130 - it would be great if there was a way to intelligently determine what style of format string the user was using, and use the ``s % fmt`` or ``s.fromat(fmt)`` syntax, appropriately.