D'Arcy Cain wrote: > A recent post by Terry Jan Reedy got me thinking about formatting. I > like the new(ish) format method for strings and I see some value in F > strings but it only works well with locals. Anything more starts > getting messier than format() and it is supposed to be cleaner. Also, I > find that I tend to re-use format strings and wish there was a > formatting string option. Here is what I came up with. > > class FSTR(str): > def __call__(self, *args): > return self.format(*args) > > And here is how it could be used. > > s = FSTR("ABC {1} {0} {2[x]}")
This can be simplified to s = "ABC {1} {0} {2[x]}".format > ... > print(s(1, 2, dict(x=3))) > > Too bad that it is too late to assign f'' to that function. I must be missing something. How would you simplify or improve the readability of the above with your version of f"..."? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list