Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Steve Willoughby
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:04:57PM -0700, Dick Moores wrote: > I just found your reply in my Tutor mailbox, at the HEAD of the > thread I started. By my time (U.S. PDT), you answered my 07:11 AM > 5/6/2008 post at 04:55 PM 5/5/2008! Yeah, sorry about that. The clock on my system was off. Fixed

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Dick Moores
At 05:41 PM 5/6/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The function is now: > > > def printResult(date1, date2, days1, weeks, days2): > print "\nThe difference between %s and %s is %d days" % (date1.strftime("%m/%d/%Y"), >

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Dick Moores
At 05:41 PM 5/6/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The function is now: > > > def printResult(date1, date2, days1, weeks, days2): > print "\nThe difference between %s and %s is %d days" % (date1.strftime("%m/%d/%Y"), >

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The function is now: > > > def printResult(date1, date2, days1, weeks, days2): > print "\nThe difference between %s and %s is %d days" % > (date1.strftime("%m/%d/%Y"), > date2.strftime("%m/%d/%Y"), days1) >

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Dick Moores
At 04:55 PM 5/5/2008, Steve Willoughby wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 11:35, Dick Moores wrote: > Could someone just come right out and do it for me? I'm lost here. > That '*' is just too magical..  Where did you guys learn about > '%*s'? Does the '%s' still mean a string? Python's % operator (for

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Dick Moores
At 12:09 PM 5/6/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  I'm lost here. That '*' > is just too magical..  Where did you guys learn about '%*s'? http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html Item 4 - Minimum field width > Does the '%s'

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm lost here. That '*' > is just too magical.. Where did you guys learn about '%*s'? http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html Item 4 - Minimum field width > Does the '%s' > still mean a string? Yes. Kent ___

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Steve Willoughby
On Tue, May 6, 2008 11:35, Dick Moores wrote: > Could someone just come right out and do it for me? I'm lost here. > That '*' is just too magical..  Where did you guys learn about > '%*s'? Does the '%s' still mean a string? Python's % operator (for string formatting) is derived from the C standar

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Dick Moores
At 09:54 AM 5/6/2008, W W wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > At 09:07 AM 5/6/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: > > You can right-justify in a format operation. You will have to do it in > two steps since the string you want to right-justify is itself

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread W W
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > At 09:07 AM 5/6/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: > > You can right-justify in a format operation. You will have to do it in > two steps since the string you want to right-justify is itself the > result of a format operation:

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Dick Moores
At 09:07 AM 5/6/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This script of mine, < http://py77.python.pastebin.com/f2fdcb99c>, has a function that prints the result--the difference in days, and weeks and days, between two dates. > > The f

Re: [Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This script of mine, < http://py77.python.pastebin.com/f2fdcb99c>, has a > function that prints the result--the difference in days, and weeks and days, > between two dates. > > The function is > > def printResult(date1,

[Tutor] Cosmetic question about printing

2008-05-06 Thread Dick Moores
This script of mine, < http://py77.python.pastebin.com/f2fdcb99c>, has a function that prints the result--the difference in days, and weeks and days, between two dates. The function is def printResult(date1, date2, days1, weeks, days2):     print "\nThe difference between %s and %s is %d days"