PEP 737 – Unify type name formatting

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2018:

  • Serhiy Storchaka: “I think we need to handle only two cases: short and fully qualified names. (…)” message
  • MRAB: “%T for short form, %#T for fully qualified name”. email
  • Barry Warsaw: “%t (short) and %T (long) do seem like the logical choices” email

2023:

  • Serhiy: “If add a specialized format, we should provide options for all reasonable variants: (…)” message
  • Serhiy: “For different kinds of names we can use the “size” modifier.” message
  • Petr Viktorin: “There’s also __module__ + ':' + __qualname__, separated by semicolon rather than a dot.” message
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