[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 16:10:19 CEST 2005

Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:55, Nick Coghlan wrote:

The leading 'p' (for 'positional') is necessary to get around the fact that $1 is currently an illegal identifier in a Template That should be fixable. Ideally, 1isbetterthan1 is better than 1isbetterthanp1.

I also looked into the idea of adding formatting support to the string.Template syntax.

Given a reimplementation of string.Template with the following pattern:

 pattern = r"""
 %(delim)s(?:
   (?P<escaped>%(delim)s)      | # An escape sequence of two delimiters, or
   (
     (\[(?P<format>[^%%]*)\])?   # an optional simple format string,
     (
       (?P<named>%(id)s)       | # and a Python identifier, or
       {(?P<braced>%(id)s)}      # a braced identifier
     )
   )                           |
   (?P<invalid>)                 # An ill-formed delimiter expr
 )
 """

And "convert" functions modified to use "fmt" where "'%s'" is currently used, with "fmt" defined via: fmt = mo.group('format') if fmt is None: fmt = '%s' # Default to simple string format else: fmt = '%' + fmt

The following works:

Py> t = format.Template("$item: $[0.2f]quantity") Py> t.format(quantity=0.5, item='Bees') 'Bees: 0.50'

Combining with a 'format' function similar to the one in my previous message, and an id pattern modified to permit numbers as identifiers:

Py> format("$1: $[0.2f]2", 'Bees', 0.5) 'Bees: 0.50'

Cheers, Nick.

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