[Python-ideas] String interpolation for all literal strings

[Eric V. Smith]

On 8/7/2015 5:40 PM, Ron Adam wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/07/2015 04:42 PM, Ron Adam wrote:
>>
>>        def _(value, fmt=''):
>>            ('{:%s}' % fmt).format(value)
> 
> Hmmm, I notice that this can be rewritten as...
> 
>     _ = format
>     'abc' + _(expr1) + 'def' + _(expr2) + 'ghi'
> 
> 
> What surpised me is the docs say...
> 
>       format(format_string, *args, **kwargs)

Where do you see that?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#format

Says: format(value[, format_spec])

Eric.