On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
PROPOSAL: Allow the simple case to stay simple. Allow field names to be omitted for all fields in a string and then default to 0, 1, ... so that example above could be written as
msg = "{} == {}".format
Given that computers are glorified counting machines, it *is* a bit annoying to be required to do the counting manually. I think this is at least half the objection to switching to .format.
What happens when both empty and non-empty fields appear ? E.g. would 'I love {} with {1} and {} with {1}'.format('bacon', 'eggs', 'sausage') return 'I love bacon with eggs and eggs with eggs', or it would be smarter and see that 1 is used explicitly and skip over it, giving 'I love bacon with eggs and sausage with eggs' ? George