Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!selfless.tophat.at!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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; 'arguments': 0.05; 'constructor': 0.07; 'type,': 0.07; 'pgp': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'subject:string': 0.09; 'message-----': 0.12; 'wrote:': 0.15; '"file"': 0.16; '----- begin': 0.16; 'bieber': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'hash:': 0.16; 'invoking': 0.16; 'open()': 0.16; 'received:66.245': 0.16; 'received:dsl.mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'subject:formatting': 0.16; 'subject:vs.': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'pm,': 0.16; 'described': 0.22; 'file,': 0.22; 'is?': 0.22; 'maybe': 0.22; 'url:home': 0.25; 'testing': 0.25; 'function': 0.26; 'lee': 0.28; 'sat,': 0.28; 'preferable': 0.30; 'version': 0.30; 'installation': 0.30; 'signed': 0.32; 'andrew': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.34; 'instead': 0.34; 'it?': 0.34; 'example,': 0.35; '(for': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'skip:" 10': 0.36; 'file': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'header :Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'help': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'further': 0.65; 'below.': 0.65; 'subject:. ': 0.66; 'suited': 0.73; 'dennis': 0.77; '-0500,': 0.84; '09:54': 0.84; '2.2.': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: String concatenation vs. string formatting Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:55:28 -0700 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <4E17661D.6020307@gmail.com> <4E18CFF8.1060908@gmail.com> <4E191B34.8090100@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user-11fb7u1.dsl.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1310277339 news.xs4all.nl 21893 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53111 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:9150 On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:23:32 -0500, Andrew Berg declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On 2011.07.09 09:54 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > "file" is a built-in (related to "open"). > It is? What is it? > Maybe it's been removed, but from the help file for my installation doc> file( filename[, mode[, bufsize]]) doc> doc> Constructor function for the file type, described further in section 3.9, ``File Objects''. The constructor's arguments are the same as those of the open() built-in function described below. doc> When opening a file, it's preferable to use open() instead of invoking this constructor directly. file is more suited to type testing (for example, writing "isinstance(f, file)"). doc> doc> New in version 2.2. doc> -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/