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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:12:50 +1000
Subject: Re: n00b question on spacing
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>   _fmtstr = "Item wrote to MongoDB database {0}, {1}"
>   msg = _fmtstr.format(_arg1, _arg2)

As a general rule, I don't like separating format strings and their
arguments. That's one of the more annoying costs of i18n. Keep them in
a single expression if you possibly can.

ChrisA