On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 4:30 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 01:12:02PM -1000, David Mertz wrote: > > I did actually "write the book" on text processing in Python. I think > it's painful and awkward, and a terrible idea. > > *Text processing* is a terrible idea? > In for a penny, in for a pound. :-) Or hammering the square peg of scanf into the round hole of f-strings? > But yes, this is the one I meant. Trying to make f-strings into a bad version of scanf, and a worse version of re.match(), is what I don't like.
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