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Re: new string formatting with local variables

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> writes:
>
>> print "{solo} was captured by {jabba}".format(**locals()) # RIGHT
>
> I tend to use ‘u"foo {bar} baz".format(**vars())’, since ‘vars’ can also
> take the namespace of an object. I only need to remember one “give me
> the namespace” function for formatting.

If you're using an object namespace, then you can just do this:

print("{o.solo} was captured by {o.jabba}".format(o=self))

That looks a lot cleaner to me than passing in **vars(self).  For
locals(), I can see the appeal, but I tend to avoid it because it has
the same icky feeling as doing an import *.

Cheers,
Ian

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Re: new string formatting with local variables Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-06-06 09:21 -0700
  Re: new string formatting with local variables Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-07 10:11 +1000
    Re: new string formatting with local variables Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 18:31 -0600
    Re: new string formatting with local variables Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 18:38 -0600
    Re: new string formatting with local variables Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-07 03:57 +0000
      Re: new string formatting with local variables Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-07 17:47 +1000

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