[Python-ideas] String formatting and namedtuple

[Raymond Hettinger]

>> PROPOSAL: Allow the simple case to stay simple.  Allow field names to be  
>> omitted for all fields in a string and then default to 0, 1, ... so that  
>> example above could be written as
>>
>> >>> msg = "{} == {}".format
>>
>> Given that computers are glorified counting machines, it *is* a bit  
>> annoying to be required to do the counting manually.  I think this is at  
>> least half the objection to switching to .format.
> 
> +1 -- given this, I would remove half my objection to .format(); the rest
> has mostly to do with backward compatibility as explained previously.

+1 from here also.


Raymond