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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:11:15 -0700
Subject: Re: Yet another Python textbook
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:
> Some don't realize that one very powerful use for the .format style of
> working is that it makes localization much more straightforward.  With
> the curly brace approach, one can translate the format string into
> another language, and if the parameters have to be substituted in
> another order, it's all in one place.

It only matters with positional placeholders, though.  You can achieve
the same thing using named placeholders, which both major formatting
styles support.