On 5/13/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:
'%zd' won't work since my value can be negative, and the 'z' modifier converts the argument to size_t.
That's a bug. It should print it signed. If unsigned printing of size_t is desired, %zu should be used.
Looking in stringobject.c, I don't see how %zu (or %lu) can be used with String_FromFormatV. Here's the code around line 260 (note ssize_t in the comment really means Py_ssize_t): /* handle the long flag, but only for %ld. others can be added when necessary. */ if (*f == 'l' && *(f+1) == 'd') { longflag = 1; ++f; } /* handle the ssize_t flag. */ if (*f == 'z' && *(f+1) == 'd') { size_tflag = 1; ++f; } n