David W. Lambert <lamber...@corning.com> added the comment: I am net yet fluent in format method. I meant
":" where "#" appeared. Anyway, I think you need the colon. If from print('{0:9}'.format(33)) you make the argument number implicit and remove the colon you'd get print('{9}'.format(33)) which does and should raise IndexError. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5237> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com