On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:23 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
And that's why the directives are NOT just a pure mirroring of format string directives. Look at C's scanf and printf functions - they correspond in many ways, but they differ in order to be useful.
Exactly -- but the C ones are a lot simpler an more constrained, so it's a pretty good match. The
point isn't to reverse format(), the point is to have a useful and practical string parser that assigns directly to variables.
I don't think there's one point in this thread. and the OP certainly presented it as reversing a fstring format.
Also, PEP 622.
yup -- at a glance, I like that a lot better. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython