First of all, I recommend that you post this to comp.lang.python. This
is the kind of PEP where wide community involvement is essential to
success; be prepared for massive revision. (My point about massive
revision would be true regardless of how much consensus has been reached
on python-dev -- PEPs often change radically once they're thrown into
the wild.)
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006, Talin wrote:
>
> Braces can be escaped using a backslash:
>
> "My name is {0} :-\{\}".format('Fred')
You should include somewhere reasoning for using "\{" and "\}" instead
of "{{" and "}}".
> Simple names are either names or numbers. If numbers, they must
> be valid decimal numbers; if names, they must be valid Python
> identifiers. A number is used to identify a positional argument,
> while a name is used to identify a keyword argument.
s/decimal numbers/decimal integers/ (or possibly "base-10 integers" for
absolute clarity)
> The parameters to the cformat function are:
>
> -- The format string (or unicode; the same function handles
> both.)
> -- A field format hook (see below)
> -- A tuple containing the positional arguments
> -- A dict containing the keyword arguments
>
> The cformat function will parse all of the fields in the format
> string, and return a new string (or unicode) with all of the
> fields replaced with their formatted values.
>
> For each field, the cformat function will attempt to call the
> field format hook with the following arguments:
>
> field_hook(value, conversion, buffer)
You need to explain further what a field format hook is and how one
specifies it.
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