On 5/6/06, Talin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've updated PEP 3101 based on the feedback collected so far.
[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/]
I think this is a step in the right direction.
I wonder if we shouldn't borrow more from .NET. I read this URL that
you referenced:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
On 5/6/06, Talin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've updated PEP 3101 based on the feedback collected so far.
[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/]
I think this is a step in the right direction.
Cool, and thanks for the very detailed feedback.
I wonder if we
On 5/19/06, Talin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcompositeformatting.asp
[on width spec a la .NET]
We already have that now, don't we? If you look at the docs for String
Guido van Rossum wrote:
[on escaping]
There is another solution to this which is equally subtle, although
fairly straightforward to parse. It involves defining the rules for
escapes as follows:
'{{' is an escaped '{'
'}}' is an escaped '}', unless we are within a field.
So you
On 5/19/06, Talin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since you seem to be in a PEP-review mode, could you have a look at
3102? In particular, it seems that all of the controversies on that one
have quieted down; Virtually everyone seems in favor of the first part,
and you have already ruled in favor of
Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com writes:
I'm still not a big fan of mixing together getitem-style access and
getattribute-style access. That makes classes that support both
ambiguous in this context. You either need to specify the order in
which these are checked (e.g. attribute
Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com writes:
I believe the proposal is taking advantage of the fact that '\{' is
not interpreted as an escape sequence -- it is interpreted as a
literal backslash followed by an open brace:
This is exactly correct.
-- Talin
Steven Bethard wrote:
On 5/7/06, Edward Loper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Talin wrote:
Braces can be escaped using a backslash:
My name is {0} :-\{\}.format('Fred')
Which would produce:
My name is Fred :-{}
Do backslashes also need to be backslashed then? If
One small comment:
The conversion specifier consists of a sequence of zero or more
characters, each of which can consist of any printable character
except for a non-escaped '}'.
Escaped? How are they escaped? (with '\'?) If so, how are backslashes
escaped (with '\\'?) And does the
Michael Chermside mcherm at mcherm.com writes:
One small comment:
The conversion specifier consists of a sequence of zero or more
characters, each of which can consist of any printable character
except for a non-escaped '}'.
Escaped? How are they escaped? (with '\'?) If
I wrote:
- Variable field width specifiers use a nested version of the {}
syntax, allowing the width specifier to be either a positional
or keyword argument:
{0:{1}.{2}d}.format(a, b, c)
This violates [the rule that '}' must be escaped]
Talin writes:
What
Talin wrote:
Braces can be escaped using a backslash:
My name is {0} :-\{\}.format('Fred')
Which would produce:
My name is Fred :-{}
Do backslashes also need to be backslashed then? If not, then what is
the translation of this:?
r'abc\{%s\}' % 'x'
I
Edward Loper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Talin wrote:
Braces can be escaped using a backslash:
My name is {0} :-\{\}.format('Fred')
Which would produce:
My name is Fred :-{}
Do backslashes also need to be backslashed then? If
Joe Smith wrote:
AFAICT there would be no way to use raw strings with that method.
...
Additional backslashes are added to raw strings to remove anything that
resembles an escape sequence.
You seem to be very confused about the way strings work. If
you look at the repr() of a string
On 5/7/06, Edward Loper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Talin wrote:
Braces can be escaped using a backslash:
My name is {0} :-\{\}.format('Fred')
Which would produce:
My name is Fred :-{}
Do backslashes also need to be backslashed then? If not, then what is
On 5/6/06, Talin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've updated PEP 3101 based on the feedback collected so far.
[snip]
Compound names are a sequence of simple names seperated by
periods:
My name is {0.name} :-\{\}.format(dict(name='Fred'))
Compound names can be used to
I've updated PEP 3101 based on the feedback collected so far.
-
PEP: 3101
Title: Advanced String Formatting
Version: $Revision: 45928 $
Last-Modified: $Date: 2006-05-06 18:49:43 -0700 (Sat, 06 May 2006) $
Author: Talin talin at acm.org
Status: Draft
Type: Standards
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