On 06/24/2013 01:03 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
While it looks a little magical, the proposed syntax would be an improvement (especially when there are many arguments):
print('{spam} and {eggs}'.format(=spam, =eggs))
It looks pretty hideous to me ;-). And it still has repetition ;-).
In larger programs, data like this would probably be in a dictionary or some other structure. There may be a large dictionary of many foods. And we would just use .format_map and not have any repetition where those are used. print('{spam} and {eggs}'.format_map(foods)) I think it would also be useful to get a sub_view of a dictionary. breakfast = ['spam', 'eggs'] print('{spam} and {eggs}'.format_map(foods.sub_view(breakfast))) The food dictionary might also have lunch items and dinner items in it, and we don't want to serve dinner for breakfast by mistake. ;-) Cheers, Ron