Counting iterations

[Steven Bethard]

Andrew Dalke wrote:
>   "pet#%i" % (i+1)
> 
> (NOTE: most times that's written %d instead of %i)

Any reason to prefer %d over %i? The library reference seems to suggest 
that they're the same thing[1].  I've typically used %i since I can 
remember it from the int type, like I can remember %f from the float 
type.  Is there any reason not to?

STeVe

[1] http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html