[Python-Dev] PEP 3101: Advanced String Formatting

Mon May 1 02:45:24 CEST 2006

"Talin" <talin at acm.org> wrote in message news:4453AF51.6050605 at acm.org...
> Compound names are a sequence of simple names seperated by

separated
> The string and unicode classes will have a class method called
> 'cformat' that does all the actual work of formatting; The
> format() method is just a wrapper that calls cformat.
>> The parameters to the cformat function are:
>> -- The format string (or unicode; the same function handles
> both.)

A class method gets the class as its first argument. If the format string 
in the first argument, then it is a normal instance method.
tjr