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

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:01:25 -0500

"PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

PP> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
>>
>> ...  Does anybody ever even use something other than `s' for
>> %() strings?  >>> '%(float)f' % {'float': 3.9} '3.900000'

PP> Presumably numerical analysts do....and David Ascher once told
PP> me he uses %d as a sanity type-check. I don't bother.

%d I sometimes use, but I don't think I've ever (purposely) used %(var)d.

-Barry