On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-02-10, pyt...@bdurham.com <pyt...@bdurham.com> wrote: > > [regardning "picture" output format specifiers] > >> I was thinking that there was a built-in function for this >> common(?) use case > > I haven't seen that paradigm since my one-and-only exposure to > COBOL in a class I took back in 1979. Is the "picture" thing > commonly used in other places than COBOL?
Seriously? I've seen it in dozens places other than COBOL over the years in everything from templating languages to report generators, to built-in support in a variety of languages (dBASE II anyone?). Haven't you ever had to get a e.g. a phone number or social security number from user input? S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
