Ron Adam wrote: > {0:d,10+20} # Field width are just string operations done after > # formatting is done. > > {0:d10+20} # Numeric widths, differ from field widths. > # They are specific to the type so can handle special > # cases.
Still not good - if you confuse two very similar and easily confusable things, your numbers get chopped off. I'm with Guido on this one: only strings should have a max width, and it should be part of the string format spec, so you can't accidentally apply it to numbers. -- 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