Some python syntax that I'm not getting
Chris
cwitts at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 07:36:52 EST 2007
On Dec 7, 2:31 pm, waltbrad <waltb... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I understand how D['say'] gets you 5, But I still don't understand
> the line after the 5.
>
> How is the character 's' some special code? And I don't get what is
> going on with the % character. I'm used to it's use in c-style
> formatting, but this just seems so bizarre. I can tell that the key
> is being replaced by it's value in the string, but I don't know how
> that is being done.
>
> TIA
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html
The '%' invokes the formatter, the 's' specifies string type.
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