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Tue Jan 14 22:28:01 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/131563.html

On 01/14/2014 01:17 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 14/01/2014 20:54, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at 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. :-(
>>
>
> I believe you wanted this.
>
>>>> a='01234567890123456'
>>>> len(a)
> 17
>>>> b = '%15.15s' % a
>>>> b;len(b)
> '012345678901234'
> 15

Cool!

--
~Ethan~

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