Ron Adam wrote: > > Greg Ewing wrote: > > The format strings are starting to look like line > > noise. > > Do you have a specific example or is it just an overall feeling?
It's an overall feeling from looking at your examples. I can't take them in at a glance -- I have to minutely examine them character by character, which is tiring. With the traditional format strings, at least I can visually parse them without much trouble, even if I don't know precisely what all the parts mean.` > For example the the field alignment > part can be handled by the format function, and the value format part > can be handled by the __format__ method. Yes, although that seems to be about the *only* thing that can be separated, and it can be specified using just one character, which should be easy enough to strip out before passing on the format string. > And my apologies if its starting to seem like line noise. I'm not that > good at explaining things in simple ways. It doesn't really have anything to do with explanation. As I indicated above, even if I understand exactly what each part means, it's still hard work parsing the string if it contains more than a couple of the allowed elements. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
