[Python-ideas] String formatting and namedtuple

[Aahz]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Aahz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Lie Ryan wrote:
>>
>> I've been experimenting with namedtuple, it seems that string formatting 
>> doesn't recognize namedtuple as mapping. 
>> 
>> from collections import namedtuple
>> Nt = namedtuple('Nt', ['x', 'y'])
>> nt = Nt(12, 32)
>> print 'one = %(x)s, two = %(y)s' % nt
>> 
>> # output should be:
>> one = 12, two = 32
>> 
>> currently, it is possible to use nt._asdict() as a workaround, but I 
>> think it will be easier and more intuitive to be able to use namedtuple 
>> directly with string interpolation
> 
> This makes perfect sense to me; I think you should feel free to go ahead
> and submit a patch.  (Regardless of whether the patch gets accepted, at
> least we would have a good record -- python-ideas is not really a good
> place to record ideas, and this is something nice and simple.)

Actually, I just realized that this can't work because then you couldn't
have

print 'one = %s, two = %s' % nt

due to the overloading on __getitem__().  Even if you could somehow
special-case this, tuple index sequencing needs to continue working as
fast path.
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