"Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote
It would have to be a *very* old version. The use of * as the width
parameter in format strings goes back to the Dark Ages of Python
1.5:
...
I believe this is a virtual copy of string formatting from C, in
which
case it probably goes back to the 80s or even the 70s.
This got me wondering so I dug out my copy of the original K&R (1978)
and there is no mention of * in the format specifiers description.
(There is for scanf but there it is a field suppressor)
I don't have an ANSI C version of K&R at home so can't say if it got
added as part of the ANSI C process - around 1990? - but neither
of my ANSI C books mention it either.
So it may not be a part of C after all.
Interesting, I wonder where it did first appear?
Alan G.
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