template strings for matching?

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    Tino> Yeah, its a bit hard to spot:

    Tino> http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations

That shows how to use the template formatting as it currently exists.  To my
knowledge there is no support for the inverse operation, which is what Joe
asked about.  Given a string and a format string assign the elements of the
string which correspond to the template elements to key/value pairs in a
dictionary.

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