[pypy-issue] [issue1081] string.Formatter does not unescape double braces

[Simon Sapin]

New submission from Simon Sapin <simon.sapin at kozea.fr>:

The Formatter class of the string module is supposed to implement the same
functionality as the str.format method, but on PyPy 1.8.0 it (incorrectly) does
not unescape double braces.

Test case:

    import string; print string.Formatter().format("{{a}}", a=42)

Expected (CPython) output: {a}
PyPy output: {{a}}

Note that str.format('{{a}}', a=42) works fine in both CPython and PyPy.

The string.py stdlib module is identical in CPython 2.7.2 and PyPy 1.8.0, but it
calls the str._formatter_parser() method, where the results differ:

CPython: [('{', None, None, None), ('a}', None, None, None)]
PyPy: [('{{a}}', None, None, None)]

(This output is documented here:
http://docs.python.org/release/2.7/library/string.html#string.Formatter.parse )

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title: string.Formatter does not unescape double braces

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