On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:35:40 GMT, Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:39:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt) wrote: >[...] >> >>I've not personally had problems with the wrong number of argumnets >>to a function call -- they get caught at run-time and are easy >>enough to fix -- but I do sometimes get errors because a varialbe is >>the wrong time, e.g. a string when it should be an int. >> >>One problem I once encountered was wit this and I waasn't picking it >>up because my debugging code looked like this: >> >> if debug: print "v=%s" % (v,) >> >>Which of course prints the same output whether v is '2' or 2. >> >>For this reason I tend to debug print statements like this now: >> >> if debug: print "v=%s" % (v,) > >I usually prefer %r over %s for debug prints > > if debug: print "v=%r" % (v,)
Arrghh!! Yes, that's what I meant to write. -- Email: zen19725 at zen dot co dot uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
