[Python-ideas] Customizing format()

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Wed Mar 18 12:45:55 CET 2009


Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger <python at ...> writes:
>> Am curious whether you guys like this proposal?
> 
> I find it good for the builtin format() function, but how does it work for
> str.format()?

I agree: I like it, but it's not enough. I use str.format() way more 
often than I hope to ever use builtin format(). If we make any change, 
I'd rather see it focused on the format mini-language.

Eric.



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