[Python-Dev] string.Template format enhancements (Re: Replacement for print in Python 3.0) (original) (raw)

tanzer@swing.co.at tanzer at swing.co.at
Tue Sep 6 16🔞42 CEST 2005

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

With the above changes, the following would work: "$1: $2".format("Number of bees", "0.5") And produce: "Number of bees: 0.5"

When pre-compiling string.Templates, the keyword method is significantly clearer, but if the syntax was accessible through a string method, then being able to use positional arguments would be very handy.

As long as named arguments don't get lost, that's fine. I often use templates stored in variables/passed around as arguments, where the positional form is not clear at all:

template.format("Number of bees", "0.5")

-- Christian Tanzer http://www.c-tanzer.at/

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