[Python-ideas] Re: f-strings as assignment targets

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 7:21 PM Steven D'Aprano

There's a middle ground of text parsing tasks that would seem to be a good match for some sort of scanner, inspired by C's scanf, whether it uses % or {} format codes.

Maybe COBOL PICTURE clauses.

Admittedly, I've never used COBOL, but I thought that one feature looks really good.