On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:33 -0700, Karthik Gurusamy wrote: > Thanks. The above surprised me as I didn't expect that %s will accept > 42. > > Looks like the implicit conversion doesn't work the other way. > > >>> '%s' % 42 > '42' > >>> '%d' % '42' > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: int argument required > >>> > > Looks like %s can be used even when I'm sending non-strings. > >>> '%s foo %s bar' % (25, 25.34) > '25 foo 25.34 bar' > >>> > > So %s seems to serve the multi-type placeholder.
According to the docs: http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html By design, %s "converts any python object using str()". OTOH it does not specify that %d, for example, calls int(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
