Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-14 Thread Scott David Daniels
MRAB wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: MRAB wrote: The shortest I can come up with is: "[" + "][".join(letters) + "]" Maybe a golf shot: "][".join(letters).join("[]") Even shorter: "["+"][".join(letters)+"]" :-) I was going by PEP8 rules. ;-) --Scott David Daniels Scott Da

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-14 Thread MRAB
Scott David Daniels wrote: MRAB wrote: The shortest I can come up with is: "[" + "][".join(letters) + "]" Maybe a golf shot: "][".join(letters).join("[]") Even shorter: "["+"][".join(letters)+"]" :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-14 Thread jschwab
Thanks all! That was most helpful and informative. Best, Josiah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-13 Thread Scott David Daniels
MRAB wrote: The shortest I can come up with is: "[" + "][".join(letters) + "]" Maybe a golf shot: "][".join(letters).join("[]") --Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-12 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:23:32 -0300, Chris Rebert escribió: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, jschwab wrote: As a more concrete example, say I have several sets of letters in a list of strings     letters = ["aeiou", "hnopty", "egs", "amsp"] and I wanted to build a regular expression string o

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-12 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/12/2009 1:34 PM jschwab said... Are repeat counts supported Python's str.format() in some fashion? In Fortran my format strings can have repeat counts. write(*, fmt="3F8.3") [1, 2, 3] 1.000 2.000 3.000 I don't think printf-style format codes, which is what'd I'd previously used in

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-12 Thread MRAB
Chris Rebert wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, jschwab wrote: As a more concrete example, say I have several sets of letters in a list of strings letters = ["aeiou", "hnopty", "egs", "amsp"] and I wanted to build a regular expression string out of them like re_str <==> "[aeiou][hn

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, jschwab wrote: > As a more concrete example, say I have several sets of letters in a > list of strings >     letters = ["aeiou", "hnopty", "egs", "amsp"] > and I wanted to build a regular expression string out of them like >     re_str <==> "[aeiou][hnopty][egs][am

Re: Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-12 Thread MRAB
jschwab wrote: Are repeat counts supported Python's str.format() in some fashion? In Fortran my format strings can have repeat counts. write(*, fmt="3F8.3") [1, 2, 3] 1.000 2.000 3.000 I don't think printf-style format codes, which is what'd I'd previously used in Python, allow for rep

Format Code Repeat Counts?

2009-08-12 Thread jschwab
Are repeat counts supported Python's str.format() in some fashion? In Fortran my format strings can have repeat counts. write(*, fmt="3F8.3") [1, 2, 3] 1.000 2.000 3.000 I don't think printf-style format codes, which is what'd I'd previously used in Python, allow for repeat counts. As a