string formatting with mapping & '*'... is this a bug?

[Jeff Epler]

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:42:08 -0500 Jeff wrote:
> 
> > In the case of Python, this would become
> >         print "%(width)*(num)d" % {'width': width, 'num': num}
> 
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:01:40PM -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> If this did change, I'd prefer:
>        print "%(num)*(width)d" % {'width': width, 'num': num}
>                 ^^^   ^^^^^
> in keeping with "in this order" (PyEssenRef 2nd ed. - P.47)

I think I got my Python example wrong.  Either way, I think it should
match the SuS printf extension behavior, but with dict keys instead of
numeric indices.

Jeff
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