On September 7, 2015 6:13:49 PM CDT, Dan Sommers
On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:39:26 -0500, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
On September 7, 2015 3:52:52 PM CDT, Random832
wrote: I've never understood why .format was invented in the first place, rather than extending percent-formatting to have the features that it has over it.
t = (1, 2, 3) # 400 lines later... print '%s' % t # oops!
t = (1, 2, 3) # 400 lines later t *= 4 # oops?
Why do you (Ryan Gonzalez) have names that are important enough to span over 400 lines of source code but not important enough to call something more interesting than "t"?
And why are we conflating the print function with string formatting with natural language translation in the first place?
You're blowing this out of proportion. I was simply showing how string formatting can be *weird* when it comes to tuples.
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