On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-02-10, sstein...@gmail.com <sstein...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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? > > 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? > > Nope. I guess it's specific to certain application areas. I've > never done any database type stuff. I do mostly embedded, > device drivers, networking/protocols, industrial automation, > Unix system admin/automation, and scientific visualization.
Yah, I've hardly ever had to get SSN input from users in a device driver ;-). That's what makes groups like this go 'round; we have all done different types of things which gives us all different perspectives. S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
