On 13/11/2012 1:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:08:59 -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote:

Is there some way to get more informative error messages from the
builtin format?

Yes -- post a feature request on the Python bug tracker, then wait until
Python 3.4 comes out in about 16 months.

:(

Many thanks :)

I am working on the assumption that the first argument of the format builtin function and be a sequence of values, which can be selected
with {1:}, {2:}, {0:} etc.

The docs don't make this clear.  I would appreciate advice.

Colin W.
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