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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:14:46 -0800
From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
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Subject: Parsing a dictionary from a format string
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Currently using python 2.6, but am serving some systems that have
older versions of python (no earlier than.
Question 1:
  With what version of python was str.format() first implemented?
Question 2:
  Given the following string: 
    S = 'Coordinates: {latitude}, {longitude}'
  Is there a python library that would provide an optimal way 
    to parse from S the following
  {'latitude':"",'longitude':""}  
  ?
Thanks
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Tim 
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