[Python-ideas] Briefer string format

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 02:31:31 +0100
Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 20/07/2015 00:59, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 16:35:01 -0700
> > Mike Miller <python-ideas at mgmiller.net> wrote:
> >
> > []
> >
> >>       csstext += f'{nl}{key}{space}{{{nl}'
> >>
> >> An "f-formatted" string could automatically format with the locals
> >> dict. Not yet sure about globals, and unicode only suggested for
> >> now.
> >
> > "Not sure" sounds convincing. Deal - let's keep being explicit
> > rather than implicit. Brevity?
> >
> > def _(fmt, dict):
> >      return fmt.format(**dict)
> > __ = globals()
> > ___ = locals()
> >
> > foo = 42
> >
> > _("{foo}", __())
> >
> >
> > If that's not terse enough, you can take Python3, and go thru
> > Unicode planes looking for funky-looking letters, then you
> > hopefully can reduce to
> >
> > .("{foo}", .())
> >
> > Where dots aren't dots, but funky-looking letters.
> >
> 
> Good grief, April 1st already?

Why, the original poster referered to bash and perl as
inspiration, so certainly he was asking for something which would
confuse people?  


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 Paul                          mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com