Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 03:52, Meredith Montgomery <mmontgom...@levado.to> > wrote: >> >> It seems to me that str.format is not completely made obsolete by the >> f-strings that appeared in Python 3.6. But I'm not thinking that this >> was the objective of the introduction of f-strings: the PEP at >> >> https://peps.python.org/pep-0498/#id11 >> >> says so explicitly. > > Precisely. It was never meant to obsolete str.format, and it does not. > >> My question is whether f-strings can do the >> following nice thing with dictionaries that str.format can do: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> def f(): >> d = { "name": "Meredith", "email": "mmontgom...@levado.to" } >> return "The name is {name} and the email is {email}".format(**d) >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> Is there a way to do this with f-strings? > > No. That's not their job. That's str.format's job.
Chris! So good to see you around here again. Thank you so much for your input on this. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
