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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Triggered By Mediocre Code (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:52:41 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:25:48 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>
>> Printf style makes it explicit that it is an integer, and nothing else
>> will do:
>>
>>     bufferedNumber = "%0.4d" % doc.GetTime().GetFrame(docFps)
> 
> bufferedNumber = f'{doc.GetTime().GetFrame(docFps):04d}'
> 
> seems to handle it too.

Note that “04d” is not quite the same as “0.4d”.

> Regarding PHP, many shared hosting vendors offer it without offering
> Python.  It's easier with PHP to serve many customers with a single PHP
> instantiation

I’m sure they do. It’s typically offered via the “mod_php” module that 
executes within an Apache web server process. Turns out there is an 
interesting technical limitation of this, though: it doesn’t handle 
WebSockets very well.

Python has ASGI, which offers your choice of Web frameworks founded on 
async/await and asyncio. Instead of running as an addon module in the Web 
server, the Python code runs in a separate process, with its own 
independent flow of control. This is much more versatile.