Eric Smith wrote:
I have this mostly implemented in ''.format(), despite my earlier statement that I was done playing with it after the sample that's attached to http://bugs.python.org/issue5237.
The one issue that's causing me problems is what to do with format specifiers that themselves need expanding.
'{0:>{1}}'.format('foo', 5) ' foo'
Should:
'{:{}}'.format('foo', 5)
produce the same output, or should it be an error? I think it should probably work, but it complicates the implementation sufficiently that I probably won't be able to finish it up for a couple of weeks. I know this is a not-so-useful corner case, but the implementation has to do something here. I could easily throw an exception, but I don't see how that's more desirable than just making it work.