I feel your pain...

On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 20:28, John Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:

> k, answering own question after some googling and guessing....     *gawd*
> I remember why I spent the last 10-15 years of my engineering career
> disliking Python
>
>             #set $y = "{:.2f}".format($x)
>
> and using $y instead of $x in all those bold places in my previous post.
>
> in what sane language would "formatstring".format(value)   make sense ?
>  sure, I could see value.format("formatstring"), but really, what is wrong
> with format(value, "format") ??
>
> oh never mind, just chalk this up to another crotchety old greybeard who
> started on FORTRAN and Assembler in the 1970s and managed to stay gainfully
> employed cranking out low level systems code for 45 years.
>
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