Python wart

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject	Python wart
Date	2013-11-01 01:45 +0000
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.1897.1383270315.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Quite often I type this

print('Total of accounts %.2f', total)

when I meant to type this

print('Total of accounts %.2f' % total)

Do I have to raise a PEP to get this stupid language changed so that it 
dynamically recognises what I want it to do and acts accordingly?

Yours most frustratedly.

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence

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