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.
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