On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:06:49PM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
> 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!
Agreed, on both issues. We don't have 'printf', lets not use something as
inexplicable as 'scanf'!
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