Re: format() not behaving as expected

From	Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: format() not behaving as expected
Date	2012-06-29 10:24 -0700
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On Friday, June 29, 2012 10:08:20 AM UTC-7, Steven D&#39;Aprano wrote:
> >>>> c = (1,3)
> >>>> s = "{0[0]}"
> >>>> print s.format(c)
> > '1'
> 
> That's not actually the output copied and pasted. You have quotes around 
> the string, which you don't get if you pass it to the print command.
> 

Mea culpa. I typed it in manually because the direct copy and paste was rather ugly full of errors because of many haplographies.



> >>>> print format(c,s)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
> > ValueError: Invalid conversion specification
> [...]
> > Any idea why one form works and the other doesn't?
> 
> Because the format built-in function is not the same as the format string 
> method.
...
> 
> (Personally, I find the documentation about format to be less than 
> helpful.)
> 

Thanks. I think it's coming together.

Either way, this format seems uglier than what I had before, and it's longer to type out.  I suppose that's just programmers preference.

Josh

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format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 09:31 -0700
  Re: format() not behaving as expected MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-06-29 18:02 +0100
    Re: format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 10:19 -0700
      Re: format() not behaving as expected MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-06-29 18:41 +0100
    Re: format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 10:19 -0700
  Re: format() not behaving as expected Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-06-29 17:08 +0000
    Re: format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 10:24 -0700

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