[Baypiggies] Custom format a la datetime

[Aahz]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015, Santiago Basulto wrote:
>
> Hello everybody. I'm writing a CLI program to do some search. It's an
> internal tool. I'd like to provide the option to my user to format the
> results as he/she'd like. Something similar to strftime on the datetime
> module.

Which version of Python?  You can use either regular string % formatting
with all versions of Python or the newer string formatting method in 2.6
and newer:

https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting

https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/string.html#string-formatting

You probably want a special dict class that handles missing keys.
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