2007/10/26, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greg Ewing writes: > > > > most people expect decimals to have fractional parts). > > > > Then their expectations require adjustment. "Decimal" > > means "base 10". On its own it doesn't imply anything > > about fractions. > > "Decimal point" notwithstanding, I guess. > > Getting "them" to change their expectations is a losing battle.
However, non of the participants in this discussion are "most people" and I can't recall ever hearing about Python and programming newbies who had trouble with %d. So that "their" expectations are is a matter of pure speculation. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
