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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jan 14 22:28:44 CET 2014

On 01/14/2014 01:15 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

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'

Huh. Wish I'd known about that way back when! ;)

-- Ethan

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