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Re: Yet another Python textbook

Date 2012-11-21 17:58 -0500
From Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
Subject Re: Yet another Python textbook
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On 11/21/2012 05:17 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> <snip>
>
>
> That said, though, I'm just glad that %-formatting is staying. It's an
> extremely expressive string formatting method, and exists in many
> languages (thanks to C's heritage). Pike's version is insanely
> powerful, Python's is more like C's, but all three are compact and
> convenient.
>
> str.format(), on the other hand, is flexible. It strikes me as rather
> more complicated than a string formatting function needs to be, but
> that may be a cost of its flexibility.
>
>

Some don't realize that one very powerful use for the .format style of
working is that it makes localization much more straightforward.  With
the curly brace approach, one can translate the format string into
another language, and if the parameters have to be substituted in
another order, it's all in one place.

Twenty years ago, I implemented such a thing for our product (C++), for
just that reason.   I'm sure that by now, the libraries exist somewhere
in the C++ stdlibs, or at least in  Boost.

-- 

DaveA

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Re: Yet another Python textbook Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 19:09 +1100
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    Re: Yet another Python textbook Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 08:00 +1100
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      Re: Yet another Python textbook "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2012-11-21 12:03 -0500
        Re: Yet another Python textbook Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-22 09:17 +1100
          Re: Yet another Python textbook "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2012-11-22 07:24 -0500
            Re: Yet another Python textbook Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-22 11:27 -0700
              Re: Yet another Python textbook "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2012-11-22 17:41 -0500
                Re: Yet another Python textbook Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-23 03:26 +0000
            Re: Yet another Python textbook Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-22 17:12 -0500
        Re: Yet another Python textbook Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-21 17:58 -0500
        Re: Yet another Python textbook Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 16:11 -0700
        Re: Yet another Python textbook Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-21 23:26 +0000
        Re: Yet another Python textbook Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-11-21 23:32 +0000
        Re: Yet another Python textbook Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 17:19 -0700
        Re: Yet another Python textbook Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-11-21 23:04 -0500
    Re: Yet another Python textbook Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-11-20 21:55 +0000
    Re: Yet another Python textbook Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 09:25 +1100

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