On Wed, 9 May 2018 09:39:08 -0300
Facundo Batista
<facundobati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This way, I could do:
>
> >>> authors = ["John", "Mary", "Estela"]
> >>> "Authors: {:, j}".format(authors)
> 'Authors: John, Mary, Estela'
>
> In this case the join can be made in the format yes, but this proposal
> would be very useful when the info to format comes inside a structure
> together with other stuff, like...
>
> >>> info = {
> ... 'title': "A book",
> ... 'price': Decimal("2.34"),
> ... 'authors: ["John", "Mary", "Estela"],
> ... }
> ...
> >>> print("{title!r} (${price}) by {authors:, j}".format(**info))
> "A book" ($2.34) by John, Mary, Estela
>
> What do you think?
-1. I hate that the format language is slowly becoming more and more
crufty, leading to unreadable code.
Yes, typing `", ".join(...)` is more work, but at least the end result
is readable.
Regards
Antoine.
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