On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:32:40 +0000, Peter Pei wrote: > Yes, it is true that %s already support unicode, and I did not > contradict that. But it counts the number of bytes instead of > characters, and makes things like %-20s out of alignment. If you don't > understand my assertion, please don't argue back and I am only > interested in answers from those who are qualified.
What version of python are you using? On python 2.4 and 2.5 on linux, %-20s counts the characters, not the bytes, or, I think it does. when I run: >>> print u'%-20s|\n%-20s|' % (u'foo bar', u'foo bár') the output is: foo bar | foo bár | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
