Re: indexing in format strings

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: indexing in format strings
Date	2014-04-11 22:44 -0400
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On 4/11/2014 7:13 PM, blindanagram wrote:
> On 11/04/2014 22:33, blindanagram wrote:
>
> Thanks, Mark and Terry, for your rapid responses.
>
> An interesting thread.

It just occurred to me today, and I verified, that '+1' is also seen as 
a string.

 >>> '{0[-1]}'.format({'-1': 'neg int key'})
'neg int key'
 >>> '{0[+1]}'.format({'+1': 'neg int key'})
'neg int key'
 >>> '{0[+1]}'.format([1,2,3])
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#16>", line 1, in <module>
     '{0[+1]}'.format([1,2,3])
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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indexing in format strings blindanagram <noone@nowhere.net> - 2014-04-11 22:33 +0100
  Re: indexing in format strings Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-04-11 22:43 +0100
  Re: indexing in format strings Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-04-11 17:45 -0400
  Re: indexing in format strings blindanagram <noone@nowhere.net> - 2014-04-12 00:13 +0100
    Re: indexing in format strings Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-04-11 22:44 -0400

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