[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus? (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:56:14 -0800

"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 Prescod