On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 03:52, Meredith Montgomery <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that str.format is not completely made obsolete by the
> f-strings that appeared in Python 3.6. But I'm not thinking that this
> was the objective of the introduction of f-strings: the PEP at
>
> https://peps.python.org/pep-0498/#id11
>
> says so explicitly.
Precisely. It was never meant to obsolete str.format, and it does not.
> My question is whether f-strings can do the
> following nice thing with dictionaries that str.format can do:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> def f():
> d = { "name": "Meredith", "email": "[email protected]" }
> return "The name is {name} and the email is {email}".format(**d)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Is there a way to do this with f-strings?
No. That's not their job. That's str.format's job.
ChrisA
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