From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 21741 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2023 21:17:56 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Aug 2023 21:17:56 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AED6426AE; Sat, 5 Aug 2023 07:17:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ua1-x931.google.com (mail-ua1-x931.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::931]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6EBC426A3 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2023 07:17:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ua1-x931.google.com with SMTP id a1e0cc1a2514c-78caeb69125so964660241.3 for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:17:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dartmouth.edu; s=google1; t=1691183861; x=1691788661; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4LqohORunIqiFGcaxmPb3igrQizJP2WRbyWcMya5VYY=; b=HIga//qtgODRa7xzToIt3Y4U7MmBo7PhJ17En5q5JtYqfbBnQgn+bNKxPGq3LV1kDo S3J1/0ievqUs6OhPlqyzJu56999oCiknx65Ncc+KnKsHszfgTAaQMPExdIqDqxCT7/JL GX3tHLVO1DgWMY29YHCCfDuXUJOo+8L2R++wayEv4eWqcpPaO4OOIgwTp/X3jK9wTeP5 evSXe5btgvUs7n1giEmCo/UjO2xg88hwUqm6atiTElDJWIcBNrZwBE0WTMtFMGbDLtRK /Q94zqCrQW7hd20d9Ybrr3aOilWLk3IJScbKBiZKFZZKPooKL4JyX0ULQBZsuPupiayC M/AA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1691183861; x=1691788661; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:x-gm-message-state :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4LqohORunIqiFGcaxmPb3igrQizJP2WRbyWcMya5VYY=; b=g2YcJNK7oLT+AagUbq7dVTAJUlZw/QGPR0XxU54tXdq76U3ScBdJwkTfESMv1raFUE 1tm67v7YojS4+xJB+ttGAZRVR4ZWBXfFPCX0ryMbnl74po9OoKVzsBjdXQJTmbf/OqL5 X6zxyewUoaZAFurlVIMdcAfhKLmDbX60oLgu2xPiYD7BdC2XUdvEoBojbzCQ+0pfb9J7 2gnaOaHM0/pD6hPSDM84o72nK5OI07MC9PVTunDKveKS1ZGb5TWbbALpifJrZF1eyY4d BsRu/cuhlpv9mGONcrWkg1oK1XX4FGN7yzIHKzYDRx6Fv05Xz7PN4uiv4YxoqDyCZMzm 4DGQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YwAvm9nGlOAB5jzhkM0Ntn7xHpRaV623Q4s3R70Pluy7GUruK8T fi3iNfFYMgeupH8UPnfqlD8ntj6FzVaqQBBYbWMHVFXj0kgYqVD/I6c= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IEGJjzxXNL+4TrZhVlPLRS/m2H3RF/RH3bFTl83jAhwlob00Bj85X15f96nrrh6eOsqmB7o588IPI9j5ToGnm0= X-Received: by 2002:a67:e987:0:b0:443:895d:1b53 with SMTP id b7-20020a67e987000000b00443895d1b53mr2141672vso.10.1691183861242; Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:17:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Douglas McIlroy Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 17:17:24 -0400 Message-ID: To: TUHS main list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID-Hash: 7YNSKTRFV2ZV6P3Y2X6UB6EE6QPUP557 X-Message-ID-Hash: 7YNSKTRFV2ZV6P3Y2X6UB6EE6QPUP557 X-MailFrom: douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: python List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: > Most of the time I'd rather not have to care whether the thing > I'm printing is a string, or a pointer, or an integer, or whatever: > I just want to see its value. > Go has %v for exactly this. It's very nice for debugging. Why so verbose? In Basic, PRINT required no formatting directives at all. Doug