Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> writes:
>
> Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > >>> "%0#8x" % 0x1234
> > '0x001234'
> > >>> "{0:0>#8x}".format(0x1234)
> > '000x1234'
>
> Apart from the sheer unreadability of the {}-style format string, the result
> looks rather unexpected from a human being's point of view.
>
> (in those situations, I would output the 0x manually anyway, such as:
> >>> "0x%06x" % 0x1234
> '0x001234'
> >>> "0x{:06x}".format(0x1234)
> '0x001234'
> )
>
Well of course, but I asked the question in the context of providing an
*automatic* converter from %-format strings to {}-format. At the moment, it
doesn't seem like a 100%-faithful automatic conversion is feasible.
Regards,
Vinay Sajip
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