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Re: format() not behaving as expected

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On Friday, June 29, 2012 10:02:45 AM UTC-7, MRAB wrote:
> 
> The ".format" method accepts multiple arguments, so the placeholders in
> the format string need to specify which argument to format as well as
> how to format it (the format specification after the ":").
> 
> The "format" function, on the other hand, accepts only a single
> argument to format, so it needs only the format specification, and
> therefore can't accept subscripting or attributes.
> 
>  >>> c = "foo"
>  >>> print "{0:s}".format(c)
> foo
>  >>> format(c, "s")
> 'foo'

Thank you. That's beginning to make sense to me. If I understand this, everything between the braces is the format specification, and the format specification doesn't include the braces, right? 

Josh

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format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 09:31 -0700
  Re: format() not behaving as expected MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-06-29 18:02 +0100
    Re: format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 10:19 -0700
      Re: format() not behaving as expected MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-06-29 18:41 +0100
    Re: format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 10:19 -0700
  Re: format() not behaving as expected Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-06-29 17:08 +0000
    Re: format() not behaving as expected Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2012-06-29 10:24 -0700

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