[Tutor] How to substitute an element of a list
asapattern forre.compile()
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Sun Jan 2 09:26:09 CET 2005
> > >>> for x in ['string', 10, True, [1,2,3] ]:
> > ... print '%s' %x
> > ...
> > string
> > 10
> > True
> > [1, 2, 3]
>
> That's cool! I didn't know that. I guess I'm crazy... : )
> (We already knew that here.)
The difference is in how the formatting details work.
For numbers the formatting digits indicate precision
and for strings length.
>>> print "%5.3f" % 123.456
123.4560
>>> print "%5.3s" % 123.456
123.
produce very different results.
Alan G.
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