Re: Newbie string questions

2011-05-25 Thread Matty Sarro
Thanks guys! I appreciate it. I was wondering why %r was always showing things enclosed in single-quotes. On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Chris Guidry wrote: > On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:06:02 AM UTC-4, Matty Sarro wrote: >> can't seem to find some of the items in the documentation. Right now

Re: Newbie string questions

2011-05-25 Thread Chris Guidry
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:06:02 AM UTC-4, Matty Sarro wrote: > can't seem to find some of the items in the documentation. Right now > what is stumping me... what exactly does %r do? I can't find it in the > documentation anywhere. Matty, %r in a format string is very much like %s. %s calls str

Re: Newbie string questions

2011-05-25 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Matty Sarro wrote: > Right now what is stumping me... what exactly does %r do? You're talking about the formatting operator? It's like the repr function: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#repr Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Newbie string questions

2011-05-25 Thread Matty Sarro
Hey everyone, This is a super noob question, so please be gentle. I am working my way through "Learn Python the Hard Way" using both python 2.7 and python 3.1 (I want to get a handle on the differences between the two - the intention to write things in python 3 but be able to understand things from