On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 23:50, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > I found > > https://peps.python.org/pep-3101/ > > """ > PEP 3101 – Advanced String Formatting > ... > An example of the ‘getitem’ syntax: > > "My name is {0[name]}".format(dict(name='Fred')) > > It should be noted that the use of ‘getitem’ within a format string is > much more limited than its conventional usage. In the above example, the > string ‘name’ really is the literal string ‘name’, not a variable named > ‘name’. The rules for parsing an item key are very simple. If it starts > with a digit, then it is treated as a number, otherwise it is used as a > string. >
Cool. I think this is a good justification for a docs patch, since that really should be mentioned somewhere other than a historical document. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
