In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Odysseus wrote: <snip> > > > > print '%2u %6u %4.2f' % \ > > (i, wordcounts[i], 100.0 * wordcounts[i] / wordcounts[0]) > > > Using 4.2 is the problem. The first digit (your 4) give the total > number of characters to use for the number. Thanks; I was thinking the numbers referred to digits before and after the decimal. The largest figures have five characters in all, so they were 'overflowing'. -- Odysseus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
