Peter Funk wrote:
>
>
> >>> "12345 John Doe" / "%5d %8s"
> (12345, 'John Doe')
> >>> "12 34 56 7.890" / "%d %d %d %f"
> (12, 34, 56, 7.8899999999999997)
> >>> "12345 John Doe, Foo Bar" / "%(num)d %(n)s, %(f)s %(b)s"
> {'n': 'John Doe', 'f': 'Foo', 'b': 'Bar', 'num': 12345}
> >>> "1 2" / "%d %d %d"
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: not all arguments filled
I would prefer "foo".scanf("%5d %8s") or maybe "parse" or "parseformats"
or something like that. I know that punctuation abuse leads inexorably
to further punctuation abuse but the cycle must stop somewhere. It's too
late for "%" but let's save "/" while we still can!
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