Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I agree with this point actually. There should be an "iterable" formatting
> code that looks something like "%[sep]i"
>
> Then "%i" % (my_seq,) would be the equivalent of "".join(my_seq), only
> allowing it to be easily embedded inside a larger format string.
>
> Some other examples:
> ("% i" % my_seq) => " ".join(my_seq)
> ("%, i" % my_seq) => ", ".join(my_seq)
>
> I see this as being similar to the way that "%.2f" controls the way that a
> floating point value is displayed.
A correction to this - such a formatting operator would need to automatically
invoke str on the items in the iterable:
("%i" % (my_seq,)) => "".join(map(str, my_seq))
("% i" % (my_seq,)) => " ".join(map(str, my_seq))
("%, i" % (my_seq,)) => ", ".join(map(str, my_seq))
("%(seq), i" % dict(seq=my_seq)) => ", ".join(map(str, my_seq))
Cheers,
Nick.
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