[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus?

[David Ascher]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> > Does anybody ever even use something other than `s' for %() strings?
> >
> > >>> '%(float)f' % {'float': 3.9}
> > '3.900000'
> 
> Presumably numerical analysts do....and David Ascher once told me he
> uses %d as a sanity type-check. I don't bother.

Paul's starting to turn into my brother -- quoting things I said twenty
years ago and that I have no way of disproving.  As Bill said, "I don't
recall".

These days, I rarely think in FP, even if I use FP, so I typically use
%s.  Back then I probably cared about mantissa and her friends.

--da