[Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jun 6 05:39:33 CEST 2008
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Maybe we should ditch support for
> positional arguments and just accept a single dictionary as the sole
> parameter to format().
>> "{num} occurs {num} times in this format string".format(dict(num=2))
If named arguments were to become mandatory, I'd want
to be able to write that as
"...{num}...".format(num = 2)
--
Greg
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