on str.format and f-strings

[Meredith Montgomery]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 03:52, Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery at levado.to> wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me that str.format is not completely made obsolete by the
>> f-strings that appeared in Python 3.6.  But I'm not thinking that this
>> was the objective of the introduction of f-strings: the PEP at
>>
>>   https://peps.python.org/pep-0498/#id11
>>
>> says so explicitly.
>
> Precisely. It was never meant to obsolete str.format, and it does not.
>
>> My question is whether f-strings can do the
>> following nice thing with dictionaries that str.format can do:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> def f():
>>   d = { "name": "Meredith", "email": "mmontgomery at levado.to" }
>>   return "The name is {name} and the email is {email}".format(**d)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Is there a way to do this with f-strings?
>
> No. That's not their job. That's str.format's job.

Chris!  So good to see you around here again.  Thank you so much for
your input on this.