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Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Sat Feb 22 18:44:59 EST 2003 
In article <hcsptpk5l8t.fsf at tjatte.nada.kth.se>, Björn Lindberg wrote:
> "Andrew Wilkinson" <ajw126NO at SPAMyork.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>> >>> print "-- %2$s -- %1$s --" % ('a', 'b')
>> 
>> Python isn't C you know! You can't simply copy things from C to Python and
>> expect them to work.
> 
> I know, but the tutorial says something to the effect that most C
> format modifiers are supported in Python.

Right.  And there's a reason that the word "most" was used instead of "all":
some of them are, in fact, not supported, and you've found one of them.  :)

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