[Tutor] What does "TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable"mean?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Sat Oct 23 14:38:54 CEST 2010


"Steven D'Aprano" <steve at pearwood.info> wrote

> It would have to be a *very* old version. The use of * as the width
> parameter in format strings goes back to the Dark Ages of Python 
> 1.5:
> ...
> I believe this is a virtual copy of string formatting from C, in 
> which
> case it probably goes back to the 80s or even the 70s.

This got me wondering so I dug out my copy of the original K&R (1978)
and there is no mention of * in the format specifiers description.
(There is for scanf but there it is a field suppressor)

I don't have an ANSI C version of K&R at home so can't say if it got
added as part of the ANSI C process - around 1990? - but neither
of my ANSI C books mention it either.

So it may not be a part of C after all.

Interesting, I wonder where it did first appear?

Alan G. 




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