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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:38:10 -0600
Subject: 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> wro=
te:
> Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> writes:
>
>> print "{solo} was captured by {jabba}".format(**locals()) # RIGHT
>
> I tend to use =91u"foo {bar} baz".format(**vars())=92, since =91vars=92 c=
an also
> take the namespace of an object. I only need to remember one =93give me
> the namespace=94 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=3Dself))

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