On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:16:00 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 6/5/2017 1:01 PM, Peter Pearson wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 10:17:05 -0700 (PDT), sean.diza...@gmail.com wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>>>> print "foo %s" % 1-2
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'int'
>>
>> Others have already pointed out that you're assuming the
>> wrong precedence:
>>
>> Say
>> "foo %s" % (1-2)
>> not
>> ("foo %s" % 1) - 2
>> .
>>
>> Personally I prefer a less compact but more explicit alternative:
>>
>> "foo {}".format(1-2)
>
> More compact:
> >>> f'foo {1-2}'
> 'foo -1'
Sarcastic thanks, dude. Excuse me while I scrub my screen with Clorox.
Or maybe my eyeballs.
More seriously, I thought "format" was the Cool New Thing toward which
all the cool kids were moving. But here I tried to be cool and put in a
plug for "format", and the hip community seems to be sticking up for
"%". Can I never get with the times?
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