Thanks guys! I appreciate it. I was wondering why %r was always
showing things enclosed in single-quotes.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Guidry wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:06:02 AM UTC-4, Matty Sarro wrote:
>> can't seem to find some of the items in the documentation. Right now
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:06:02 AM UTC-4, Matty Sarro wrote:
> can't seem to find some of the items in the documentation. Right now
> what is stumping me... what exactly does %r do? I can't find it in the
> documentation anywhere.
Matty, %r in a format string is very much like %s. %s calls str
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Matty Sarro wrote:
> Right now what is stumping me... what exactly does %r do?
You're talking about the formatting operator? It's like the repr function:
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#repr
Chris Angelico
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Hey everyone,
This is a super noob question, so please be gentle.
I am working my way through "Learn Python the Hard Way" using both
python 2.7 and python 3.1 (I want to get a handle on the differences
between the two - the intention to write things in python 3 but be
able to understand things from
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> But please don't use the functions in `string` that are also available as
> methods on strings. Those functions are deprecated.
>
>
Meaning (for newbie clarification):
instead of string.upper(s2), just do s2.upper(). For more detail, see
the docs.
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:52:47 -0400, Shawn Minisall wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm a beginning programming student in Python and have a
> few questions regarding strings.
>
> If s1 = "spam"
>
> If s2 = "ni!"
>
> 1. Would string.ljust(string.upper(s2),4) * 3 start it at the left
> margin and move it
Hi everyone, I'm a beginning programming student in Python and have a
few questions regarding strings.
If s1 = "spam"
If s2 = "ni!"
1. Would string.ljust(string.upper(s2),4) * 3 start it at the left
margin and move it 12 spaces to the right because of the 4 *3? If so,
why is it in the parath
