Peter Otten wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>
> >> > Fredrik Tolf wrote:
>
> >> > > The thing is, I want to get format strings from the user, and I don't
> >> > > want to require the user to consume all the arguments.
>
> > what's ugly about this:
> > [untested]:
> >
> > def count_format_args(s):
> >
John Machin wrote:
>> > Fredrik Tolf wrote:
>> > > The thing is, I want to get format strings from the user, and I don't
>> > > want to require the user to consume all the arguments.
> what's ugly about this:
> [untested]:
>
> def count_format_args(s):
> pending = False
> count = 0
>
Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:26 -0800, John Machin wrote:
> > Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> [...]
> > > The thing is, I want to get format strings from the user, and I don't
> > > want to require the user to consume all the arguments. docs.python.org
> > > doesn't seem to have any clues o
> Could it be as I fear, that it is impossible?
p'shaw, you underestimate the power of the Python...
I think this is a poor solution (I would go with the solution in John
Machin's second post) but here it is anyway since it does essentially
what you asked for:
[code]
def print_data(fmtstr):
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:26 -0800, John Machin wrote:
> Fredrik Tolf wrote:
[...]
> > The thing is, I want to get format strings from the user, and I don't
> > want to require the user to consume all the arguments. docs.python.org
> > doesn't seem to have any clues on how to achieve this, and I can
John Machin wrote:
> Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> > I've been trying to get the string formatting operator (%) to work with
> > more arguments than the format string requires, but I can find no way to
> > do that. For example:
> >
> > >>> "%i" % 10
> > '10'
> > >>> "i" % 10
> > Traceback (most recent cal
Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> I've been trying to get the string formatting operator (%) to work with
> more arguments than the format string requires, but I can find no way to
> do that. For example:
>
> >>> "%i" % 10
> '10'
> >>> "i" % 10
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in ?
> T
How do you know which ones to use? Your best bet is to write a handler
for the TypeError and give a meaningful error message.
Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> I've been trying to get the string formatting operator (%) to work with
> more arguments than the format string requires, but I can find no way to
> d
I've been trying to get the string formatting operator (%) to work with
more arguments than the format string requires, but I can find no way to
do that. For example:
>>> "%i" % 10
'10'
>>> "i" % 10
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
TypeError: not all arguments converted d
