New submission from Jeff McNeil <j...@jmcneil.net>:
I was going through the string formatting examples this evening and noticed
this:
print '%(language)s has %(#)03d quote types.' % \
{'language': "Python", "#": 2}
The example uses a '#' as a map key. This is somewhat misleading as if we had
simply left the parenthesis off, the '#' would have been interpreted as an
alternate conversion flag. Should be updated to use a more verbose (and less
confusing) dictionary key.
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assignee: d...@python
components: Documentation
files: stdtypes.rst.2.6.5.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 104410
nosy: d...@python, mcjeff
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Confusing string formatting examples
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17115/stdtypes.rst.2.6.5.patch
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