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

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:25:59 -0800

Paul Prescod wrote:

"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's starting to turn into my brother -- quoting things I said twenty years ago and that I have no way of disproving. As Bill said, "I don't recall".

These days, I rarely think in FP, even if I use FP, so I typically use %s. Back then I probably cared about mantissa and her friends.

--da