On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:23 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And that's why the directives are NOT just a pure mirroring of format > string directives. Look at C's scanf and printf functions - they > correspond in many ways, but they differ in order to be useful. Exactly -- but the C ones are a lot simpler an more constrained, so it's a pretty good match. The > point isn't to reverse format(), the point is to have a useful and > practical string parser that assigns directly to variables. > I don't think there's one point in this thread. and the OP certainly presented it as reversing a fstring format. > Also, PEP 622. yup -- at a glance, I like that a lot better. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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