Guido wrote: > I remember a language that did the *** thing; it was called Fortran. > It was an absolutely terrible feature.
I agree that expanding the field width is much to be preferred if possible. But if you *must* have a maximum field width, it's better to show no number at all than a number with some of its digits invisibly chopped off. > So I think a maximum width is quite unnecessary for numbers. I agree with that. By the way, I've always thought the reason C has maximum widths for string formats is so you can deal with strings which are not null-terminated, an issue that doesn't arise in Python. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
