On 9/17/2020 12:24 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 1:38 AM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
In general, there's no way to start with a format specifier string and
from it get the type of the object that it should be applied to. For
example, any string without %'s is a valid datetime format specifier (of
dubious value, but such is life). Perhaps a better example is decimal
vs. float. What if I want %.2f to return a decimal? Would that just not
be possible?
So I think you'd have to limit this to a small set of built-in types.
In general, I think overloading f-strings as assignment targets would be
confusing. But I've been wrong before.
It doesn't have to be absolutely identical, just as long as it's
mostly parallel. Consider C's printf and scanf formats; any whitespace
in scanf matches any whitespace, and the integer handlers are always
happy to accept a leading plus sign (which has to be specifically
requested in printf). Conversely, scanf can be more restrictive, eg
%[a-z] which will match some sequence of lowercase ASCII letters.
Sure. And the less it looks like "real" f-strings, the worse it is, IMO.
If someone wanted to play with this in pure Python, string.Formatter's
parse() method would do all of the parsing for you.
IMO printf notation (what in Python does with str % ...) is better
suited to this than Python's .format() notation (which f-strings also
use). But the advantages of f-strings would also apply here. Maybe the
best way would be the tagged version of percent formatting?
x, y = 1, 2
"==> (%(x)d, %(y)d)" % globals()
'==> (1, 2)'
Theory:
"==> (%(x)d, %(y)d)" = "==> (1, 2)"
could assign x=1 and y=2. (It'd want to have some sort of tag to show
what's going on, but not f"..." since it's not an f-string.)
PEP 622 pattern matching may be relevant here.
I was going to mention PEP 622, but deleted that portion of my response.
The resulting hundred emails are on you, not me!
Eric
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