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Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket

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On 4/3/2011 6:07 AM, Alia Khouri wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been using ironpython2.7 in a project, and I was generating some
> csharp code when i discovered that I couldn't use use str.format
> because the interference with the brackets-aplenty situation in
> csharp.
>
> In [1]: code = "class {0}Model { public bool IsModel(){ return
> true; } }"
>
> In [2]: code.format('My')

Just double the brackets, just as one doubles '\\' to get '\' in a string.

 >>> "class {0}Model {{ public bool IsModel(){{ returntrue; }} 
}}".format('My')
'class MyModel { public bool IsModel(){ returntrue; } }'


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Alia Khouri <alia_khouri@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-03 03:07 -0700
  Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Corey Richardson <kb1pkl@aim.com> - 2011-04-03 06:53 -0400
    Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Alia Khouri <alia_khouri@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-03 05:17 -0700
  Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-04-04 01:17 -0400
    Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Alia Khouri <alia_khouri@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-04 08:42 -0700
      Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-04-04 18:18 +0200
        Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Alia Khouri <alia_khouri@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-04 13:45 -0700
          Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-04-05 13:45 +0000
        Re: proposal to allow to set the delimiter in str.format to something other than curly bracket Alia Khouri <alia_khouri@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-04 14:32 -0700

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