Tino> Yeah, its a bit hard to spot:
Tino>
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operationsThat shows how to use the template formatting as it currently exists. To my knowledge there is no support for the inverse operation, which is what Joe asked about. Given a string and a format string assign the elements of the string which correspond to the template elements to key/value pairs in a dictionary. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
