[Python-ideas] String formatting and namedtuple

[Bruce Leban]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

>
> 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.


Explicit syntax is better imho:

"The answers are {.} and {.}.".format(x,y)

I'm suggesting a bare dot because it looks like something rather than
nothing and this syntax is currently invalid.

--- Bruce
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