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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:11:00 +0100
Subject: Re: n00b question on spacing
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On 22 June 2013 16:55, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 22, 2013 10:40:24 AM UTC-5, Joshua Landau wrote:
>> > Plus, your use of the format syntax is incorrect.
>> Wut?
>
> Well what i mean exactly is not that it's illegal, i just
> find the use of the "getattr sugar", from WITHIN the format
> string, to be excessively noisy.

Sure...
So in other words you realised you were wrong but you're too scared to
admit it. Eh? That's it, isn't it! You just don't want to loosen your
proud persona :P.

> In short, i don't care to know WHAT is being injected into
> the format string, i simply need to know WHERE it is being
> injected.

No, I agree. It's never about what you're doing; it's where you
are when you do it.

> It's about abstractions. It's about not violating the
> fundamentals of "templates".

Mmhmm, I too treasure these 'fundamentals'.