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

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jan 14 22:17:02 CET 2014

On 14/01/2014 20:54, 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. :-(

I believe you wanted this.

a='01234567890123456' len(a) 17 b = '%15.15s' % a b;len(b) '012345678901234' 15

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Mark Lawrence

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