Creating formatted output using picture strings

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-02-10, python at bdurham.com <python at bdurham.com> wrote:

[regardning "picture" output format specifiers]

> I was thinking that there was a built-in function for this
> common(?) use case

I haven't seen that paradigm since my one-and-only exposure to
COBOL in a class I took back in 1979.  Is the "picture" thing
commonly used in other places than COBOL?

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