On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 03:52, Meredith Montgomery <mmontgom...@levado.to> 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": "mmontgom...@levado.to" } > 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list