[Python-ideas] Outside the box string formatting idea

[Rob Cliffe]

On 10/08/2015 00:08, Ron Adam wrote:
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> There are actually too parts...
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>   (% ...)  Handles implicit concatination and string conversion.
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> And {expr format} handles the formatting, inside (% ...) context only.
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> So these only work in string format expressions, just like special 
> syntax for comprehensions only works in comprehensions.
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> As I suggested, I think it's the closest you can get and still not put 
> the expressions into the strings.
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> Comma's could be used to separate things, but it's not that much of a 
> stretch to go from ....
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>      'a' 'b'   --> 'ab'
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> to
>      a = 'a'
>      b = 'b'
>      (% a b)  --> 'ab'
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> But we could have...
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>      (% a, b)  If that seems more pythonic.
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How does this gain over

def f(*args): return ''.join(args)
a='a'
b='b'
f(a, b)

Rob Cliffe