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| Subject | Re: Integers with leading zeroes |
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| From | MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> |
| Date | 2015-07-22 16:38 +0100 |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.870.1437579516.3674.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 2015-07-22 16:27, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> On 07/22/2015 11:09 AM, alister wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:12:59 +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
>>
>>> The biggest use I have for decimal numbers that begin with 0 is in
>>> credit card numbers, account numbers and the like where the first check
>>> you do is 'does this thing have the correct number of digits'.
>>> So far, all the examples I've been able to find in my code -- which does
>>> this sort of stuff a lot -- is looking at string versions of decimal
>>> numbers, but I suspect there is old code out there in the wild which
>>> just used integers.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>
>> This type of information should be stored as a string not any type of
>> numeric format, if you are not performing maths on it then it is a string
>> & not a number.
>
> Does the same condition hold for strings? If you are not performing string
> operations on something, it is not a string?
>
Tkinter comes to mind. You specify how widgets are laid out strings
that are basically flags:
text_widget.pack(side=LEFT, fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
where LEFT, BOTH and YES are strings.
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Integers with leading zeroes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-19 15:39 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 23:46 -0600
Re: Integers with leading zeroes "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-07-19 10:19 +0200
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 12:58 -0700
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-21 19:21 +0200
Re: Integers with leading zeroes sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-07-21 10:58 -0700
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-07-21 11:06 -0700
Re: Integers with leading zeroes sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-07-21 11:38 -0700
Re: Integers with leading zeroes sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-07-21 11:41 -0700
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-22 10:55 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-22 11:10 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-22 12:14 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-22 14:16 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-22 09:12 +0200
Re: Integers with leading zeroes alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-07-22 09:09 +0000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-22 17:27 +0200
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-22 15:47 +0000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-22 16:38 +0100
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-22 15:50 +0000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-22 17:24 +0100
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-23 08:32 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-22 09:31 +0200
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-07-22 18:40 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-22 12:10 +0300
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-22 11:38 +0200
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-22 13:26 +0300
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-22 13:51 +0000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-22 07:03 -0700
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-23 01:14 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-22 15:20 +0000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-07-22 20:11 -0600
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-07-24 18:23 +1200
Re: Integers with leading zeroes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-24 16:28 +1000
Re: Integers with leading zeroes alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-07-24 13:16 +0000
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