On 14/01/2014 20:54, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
In Py2, because '%15s' can actually take 17 characters, I have to use '%15s'
% data_value[:15] everywhere.
Wow. I thought there would be some combination using %.15s but I can't
get that to work. :-(
I believe you wanted this.
>>> a='01234567890123456'
>>> len(a)
17
>>> b = '%15.15s' % a
>>> b;len(b)
'012345678901234'
15
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