On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:50:13AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > I too spent some time scratching my head trying to guess what you expect > > this "j" format code to do, including the fundamental question "why j > > and not some other letter?". > > Interestingly, that question didn't faze me in the slightest. But > maybe my instant and automatic "oh you mean join" coloured my > expectations elsewhere, and possibly not correctly.
Oh, I didn't think of that! I was thinking i, j, k as integers, and thinking "i is used, and j is the next letter". -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/