1. of or pertaining to the science or practice of medicine. 2. curative; medicinal; medical properties. 3. pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means. 4. pertaining to or indicating the state of one's health: a medical leave.
Numbers refer to positional arguments passed to the .format() method, starting at 0 for the first argument. You may also use any Python name to refer to one of the keyword arguments. If the associated argument is an iterable, you may append an expression of this form to retrieve one of its elements:
Perl does its own sprintf formatting: it emulates the C function sprintf(3), but doesn't use it except for floating-point numbers, and even then only standard modifiers are allowed. Non-standard extensions in your local sprintf(3) are therefore unavailable from Perl.ee below for more details and see sprintf(3) or printf(3) on your system for an explanation of the general principles. For example: # 1  Format number with up to 8 leading zeroes. $ 2 result = sprintf (%08d , $number) ;