Conditional operator in Python?
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Fri Apr 6 00:17:57 EDT 2001
Andrew Dalke wrote:
> I do remember a letter to the editor in CACM a few
> years ago complaining about all the CS oriented computer
> science languages which didn't have a very useful
> feature in COBOL - a data type which understood that
> leading zeros are important for identifier numbers.
> Eg, 04/03/01 as a date or 001-453-23264 as a part
> number.
Eh? There already is a perfectly good data type for that -- a string.
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