On 1/14/2014 3:54 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> In Py2, because '%15s' can actually take 17 characters, I have to use '%15s' >> % data_value[:15] everywhere. > > Wow. I thought there would be some combination using %.15s but I can't > get that to work. :-(
>>> '%.15s' % 'abcdefghij1234567' 'abcdefghij12345' >>> '{:.15}'.format('abcdefghij1234567') 'abcdefghij12345' >>> Or, depending on what you're after: >>> '%15.15s' % 'abcde' ' abcde' >>> '%15.15s' % 'abcdefghij1234567' 'abcdefghij12345' >>> > (I should review PEP 461, but I don't have time yet.) Same here. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com