Python wart
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Oct 31 22:56:22 EDT 2013
On 01/11/2013 02:41, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 07:45 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> Quite often I type this
>>
>> print('Total of accounts %.2f', total)
>>
>> when I meant to type this
>>
>> print('Total of accounts %.2f' % total)
>>
>> Do I have to raise a PEP to get this stupid language changed so that it
>> dynamically recognises what I want it to do and acts accordingly?
>>
>> Yours most frustratedly.
>
> This is one reason I've started using the new string formatting method
> in all my new code.
>
I'll admit to being a lazy, bone idle git and not wanting to change my
code as a former C programmer, but that strikes me as a cunning plan,
thanks. Now where's my Windows desktop shortcut to the Python compiled
help file? :)
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But the best has yet to be invented. Christian Tismer
Mark Lawrence
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