Raymond Hettinger wrote: > [Barry] > >>Actually, we probably only /need/ printf(), and certainly for C >>programmers (are there any of us left? ;), I think that would be a > > small > >>conceptual leap. The motivation for keeping a non-formatting version > > is > >>for simple cases, and beginners -- both of which use cases should not > > be > >>dismissed. > > > +1 on Barry's proposal for two functions, one formatted and one plain.
+1 There is ... >>> '%r+%r = %r'.__mod__((1,2,3)) '1+2 = 3' Ok, not exactly what he proposed. ;-) Is there a better named method that str.__mod__() calls? > However, I take issue with the premise that beginners do not need > formatting. Almost anyone, beginner or not, needs formatting when they > are working on a real application. My experience is that finance people > immediately try to format their output (habits from Excel). Most are > astonished at how non-trivial it is to add commas, dollar signs, > brackets, and a fixed number of decimal places. So, I think beginners > should be considered a key constituent for output formatting and that > their needs should be accommodated as simply and broadly as possible. I agree, and the next thing programmers with previous experience look for is formatted input. Ok, not the very next thing. :-) Cheers, Ron _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
