* Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> [110924 19:07]: > > Padding numbers with leading zeroes is very common. I'm surprised that > > more languages don't make it a string method. > > By making it a string method, instead of a function, we force all > implementations of strings to implement that method. That sort of > sucks, and it's a reason not to include it as a method. Why does it suck? And why do people say 'suck' so much, especially in technical venues? :) Just answer the first question, the second is rhetorical. I think that your answer, regardless of whether I agree with it may edify me serendipitously.
> It can, after all, be implemented as a function, and in doing so > (with the appropriate operator overloading) that function could > work with multiple implementations of strings. Instead any > implementation of a string must implement that method. That's a > waste. I'm not sure what you mean. I've written my own `split' function. I don't believe that there would be any conflict if you wrote your own `zfill' function. Or if there would be, I'd want to know before I hurt myself. regards -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
