"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
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>...
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> 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 Prescod