[Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Jun 6 13:08:25 CEST 2008

Greg Ewing schrieb:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Maybe we should ditch support for positional arguments and just accept a single dictionary as the sole parameter to format().

"{num} occurs {num} times in this format string".format(dict(num=2)) If named arguments were to become mandatory, I'd want to be able to write that as "...{num}...".format(num = 2)

You already are -- in fact, that is the only way this works. (I'd wondered why nobody brought this error up in this discussion before. Probably it wouldn't have been ugly enough.)

I don't see a significant speed difference between positional and keyword arguments to format() when testing with two arguments.

Georg

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