On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM, 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.

Explicit syntax is better imho:

"The answers are {.} and {.}.".format(x,y)

I'm suggesting a bare dot because it looks like something rather than nothing and this syntax is currently invalid.

--- Bruce