sprintf behaviour

[lynx]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:57:39 +0000, Andrew Wilkinson wrote:

# print "-- %2$s -- %1$s --" % ('a', 'b')

> Python isn't C you know! You can't simply copy things from C to Python and
> expect them to work.
> Take a look at...
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesseq-strings.html
> And you'll see that what you actually want is just...

# print "-- %s -- %s --" % ('a', 'b')

well, he *did* say something about wanting positioned parameters. so,
assuming i'm not completely misunderstanding what he meant by that, more
likely he wants to do this:

# print "-- %2s -- %1s --" % ('a', 'b')

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