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string formatting quirk?

Hi,

''%([]) doesn't raise exception
but
''%('') does

Can anyone explain me why??

rgds
Anurag

Jul 19 '05 #1
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an**********@yahoo.com wrote:
''%([]) doesn't raise exception
but
''%('') does

Can anyone explain me why??


That is a side-effect of duck-typing. The duck-type of an empty list is
indistinguishable from that of an empty dictionary. Not testing the exact
type here achieves consistency with the behaviour of custom dictionaries,
e. g:
class List(list): .... def __getitem__(self, index):
.... return list.__getitem__(self, int(index))
.... "%(0)s" % List([42]) '42' "%(1)s %(0)s" % List([42, 24]) '24 42' "" % List([])

''

Peter

Jul 19 '05 #2

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