7 May
2006
7 May
'06
6:14 p.m.
On 5/7/06, Edward Loper <edloper@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
Talin wrote:
Braces can be escaped using a backslash:
"My name is {0} :-\{\}".format('Fred')
Which would produce:
"My name is Fred :-{}"
Do backslashes also need to be backslashed then? If not, then what is the translation of this:?
r'abc\{%s\}' % 'x'
I believe the proposal is taking advantage of the fact that '\{' is not interpreted as an escape sequence -- it is interpreted as a literal backslash followed by an open brace:
'\{' '\\{' '\\{' '\\{' r'\{' '\\{'
Thus, for 'abc\{0\}'.format('x'), you should get an error because there are no replacement fields in the format string. STeVe -- Grammar am for people who can't think for myself. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy