Mark said : "so I can get an extremely large pair of pliers with which I can extract my tongue from my cheek :) "
OK fair enough, and my post was in the same spirit. Chris said : "Maybe, but it's supported by so many languages that it is of value. " Sure, I suppose someone should make a module that gets you as close as possible within the as-is language definition. I can't really comment on whether Py is close enough currently, as I always thought printf was sort of crappy. I thought the C++ << business even worse. Like I said, Python seems fine to me in this area. I use the str(), round() and ljust(), rjust() functions and concatenate what I need together. The result seems more readable than the old printf crap I used to write (not exactly clearing a sky high bar). Just one man-child's opinion. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
