On Mar 10, 11:50 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a naive question: > > > "%u" % -3 > > > I expect it to print 3. But it still print -3. > > Internally it uses the C runtime to format the number, but if the number > you ask it to print unsigned is negative it uses %d instead of %u. I have > no idea if it is actually possibly to get a different output for %d versus > %u.
%u used to be different from %d, but it changed because of the int/ long unification in Python 2.4. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
