[Python-Dev] Issue 6081: format string using mapping rather than kwargs
Eric Smith
eric at trueblade.com
Thu Mar 25 15:53:42 CET 2010
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Moving the decision of "how am I going to be called" to the time of
> writing the format string is a bit odd.
>
> On the other hand, the specially crafted format string does have the
> virtue of travelling far more easily through any APIs that wrap the
> basic format() method (since it doesn't need special treatment to make
> its way through the wrapping code).
Completely agree on all points. Now we're just left with "is it worth
expanding the str api for this?". I don't feel strongly either way.
--
Eric.
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