On Friday, June 29, 2012 10:02:45 AM UTC-7, MRAB wrote:
>
> The ".format" method accepts multiple arguments, so the placeholders in
> the format string need to specify which argument to format as well as
> how to format it (the format specification after the ":").
>
> The "format" function, on the other hand, accepts only a single
> argument to format, so it needs only the format specification, and
> therefore can't accept subscripting or attributes.
>
> >>> c = "foo"
> >>> print "{0:s}".format(c)
> foo
> >>> format(c, "s")
> 'foo'
Thank you. That's beginning to make sense to me. If I understand this,
everything between the braces is the format specification, and the format
specification doesn't include the braces, right?
Josh
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