2010/10/31 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:39:44 -0400 > Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > >> What are your thoughts on adding a str.format_from_mapping (or similar >> name, maybe the suggested "format_map") to 3.2? See >> http://bugs.python.org/issue6081 . This method would be similar to >> "%(foo)s %(bar)s" % d, where d is a dict (or rather any mapping object), >> but of course would use str.format syntax: "{foo} >> {bar}".format_from_mapping(d). > > I must be missing something, but what's the difference with > XXX.format(**d)?
It allows arbitrary mappings. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
