Was doing some string formatting, noticed the following:
x = None "%s" % x
'None'
Is there a reason it maps to 'None'? I had expected ''.
Can you explain why you expected that? A few other examples that make me not expect what you do:
py> '%s' % False
'False'
py> '%s' % []
'[]'
py> '%s' % {}
'{}'
py> '%s' % set()
'set([])'All of the objects above evaluate to False in a boolean context like '' does, but they display a string appropriate to their type. Since None has it's own type (NoneType), I would expect similar behavior.
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