On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:24:53 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote: > On 13/11/2012 1:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:08:59 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote: >> >>> Is there some way to get more informative error messages from the >>> builtin format? >> >> Yes -- post a feature request on the Python bug tracker, then wait >> until Python 3.4 comes out in about 16 months. >> >> :( >> > Many thanks :) > > I am working on the assumption that the first argument of the format > builtin function and be a sequence of values, which can be selected with > {1:}, {2:}, {0:} etc.
Um, did you read the rest of my post? I already told you that this is incorrect. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list