Oct. 8, 2009
12:34 a.m.
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> writes:
Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:
"%0#8x" % 0x1234 '0x001234' "{0:0>#8x}".format(0x1234) '000x1234'
Apart from the sheer unreadability of the {}-style format string, the result looks rather unexpected from a human being's point of view.
(in those situations, I would output the 0x manually anyway, such as:
"0x%06x" % 0x1234 '0x001234' "0x{:06x}".format(0x1234) '0x001234' )
Well of course, but I asked the question in the context of providing an *automatic* converter from %-format strings to {}-format. At the moment, it doesn't seem like a 100%-faithful automatic conversion is feasible. Regards, Vinay Sajip