On 6/23/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like the internal counter concept though - it means that purely positional
> stuff can be written without any additional mental overhead, and with the
> braces being the only additional typing when compared to the status quo.
>
> That way, if you didn't have any field formatting you wanted to do, you could
> just write:
>
> "{} picks up the {}. It is {}!".format(person, thing, adjective)
I don't like this, as it makes it easy to fall into a localization
trap which the original programmer may have no reason to predict.
While it would be possible to add indices to the translated format
string (unlike the usual C/C++ equivalent), it would make things much
more confusing, possibly tempting constructs like "{1} ... {0} ...
{}". I doubt most translators would be intimately familiar with
Python's format specification rules.
I would much prefer the consistent explicit counter (or lookup-key) in
the format specifier.
Michael
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Michael Urman http://www.tortall.net/mu/blog
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