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 so, how are backslashes
> escaped (with '\\'?) And does the mechanism un-escape these for you
> before passing them to __format__?
>
> Later...
> > - 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 specification given above... it has non-escaped '}'
> characters. Make up one rule and be consistant.
What would you suggest? I'd be interested in hearing what kinds of
ideas people have for fixing these problems.
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-- Talin
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