[Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot (original) (raw)

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Tue Jan 14 22:15:57 CET 2014

On 1/14/2014 3:54 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

In Py2, because '%15s' can actually take 17 characters, I have to use '%15s' % datavalue[:15] everywhere. Wow. I thought there would be some combination using %.15s but I can't get that to work. :-(

'%.15s' % 'abcdefghij1234567' 'abcdefghij12345' '{:.15}'.format('abcdefghij1234567') 'abcdefghij12345'

Or, depending on what you're after:

'%15.15s' % 'abcde' ' abcde' '%15.15s' % 'abcdefghij1234567' 'abcdefghij12345'

(I should review PEP 461, but I don't have time yet.)

Same here.

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