marduk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By design, %s "converts any python object using str()". OTOH it does > not specify that %d, for example, calls int().
No, but it does say that the 'd' is a conversion type meaning 'signed
integer decimal', and indeed anything which has an __int__ method may be
passed to the %d formatter:
>>> class C:
def __int__(self):
return 42
>>> "%d" % C()
'42'
>>> "%d" % 3.5
'3'
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