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

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:24:03 -0500

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Does anybody ever even use something other than `s' for %() strings?

>>> '%(float)f' % {'float': 3.9} '3.900000' I never have.

Then again, you've never used a floating-point number either . I've certainly used %(x)f/g/e with float formats.

Not quite speaking of which, if Python grows a new $ operator, let's get the precedence right. This kind of thing is too common today:

amount = 3.50 n = 3 print "Total: $%.2f." % amount*n Total: 3.50.Total:3.50.Total: 3.50.Total:3.50.Total: $3.50.