Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!nerim.net!novso.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'syntax': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'error:': 0.07; 'subject:help': 0.08; 'boring': 0.09; 'friday,': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'pep': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'fancy': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; ':-)': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'written': 0.21; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'skip:p 30': 0.29; "we'd": 0.29; 'topic': 0.29; 'characters': 0.30; 'ease': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; '"",': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'definition': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'las': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'list': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'discuss': 0.62; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'invalid': 0.68; 'received:2': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python 2.7.6 help with white spaces? Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:09:08 +0000 References: <504A0CAE-42E4-495E-96AA-C8A45559E139@cox.net> <851tzfeabo.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <1907f236-a7f0-4c55-b0ed-752005726bec@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-204-182.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <1907f236-a7f0-4c55-b0ed-752005726bec@googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140207-1, 07/02/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1391810976 news.xs4all.nl 2931 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56325 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:65615 On 07/02/2014 21:45, Asaf Las wrote: > On Friday, February 7, 2014 11:11:37 PM UTC+2, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >> Fancy wasting two whole characters when this will suffice >> >> print("{}:{}".format(minutes,seconds)) :) >> >> >> Mark Lawrence > > Hmmmm, got error: > > File "", line 1 > print("{}:{}".format(minutes,seconds)) :) > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > :-) > I think we'd all better ease up with the humour. This will suit the people who want this list turned into something bland and boring that can only discuss Python code written to conform to PEP 8 and anything else is by definition off topic :( -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com