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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:14:15 +0100
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On 19/07/2014 18:38, C.D. Reimer wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I typically write a Python 2.7 string function in my library like this:
>
>      def getCompletedTime(start, end): return "Time completed:", str(end
> - start)
>

Further to my earlier post are you aware of the behaviour of your 
"string function"?

 >>> def getCompletedTime(start, end): return "Time completed:", str(end 
- start)
...
 >>> t = getCompletedTime(0, -1)
 >>> type(t)
<class 'tuple'>
 >>> t[0]
'Time completed:'
 >>> t[1]
'-1'

Is this what you intended?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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