[Python-Dev] PEP 3101: Advanced String Formatting (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon May 1 02:45:24 CEST 2006


"Talin" <talin at acm.org> wrote in message news:4453AF51.6050605 at acm.org...

Compound names are a sequence of simple names seperated by

separated

The string and unicode classes will have a class method called 'cformat' that does all the actual work of formatting; The format() method is just a wrapper that calls cformat.

The parameters to the cformat function are: -- The format string (or unicode; the same function handles both.)

A class method gets the class as its first argument. If the format string in the first argument, then it is a normal instance method.

tjr



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