On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 22, 2013 6:12:50 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> As a general rule, I don't like separating format strings and their
>> arguments.
>
> Huh? Format strings don't take arguments because Python's built-in string
> type is not callable.
>
> py> callable("")
> False
>
> "Format string" is just a generic term we apply to normal string literals
> that include special markers (called "placeholders") that define the final
> location and specify the specifics of an Object(s) translation into string
> type.
And parameterized SQL queries don't take parameters either, for the
same reason. They're extra parameters given to the call that uses it.
So? The format string still takes parameters.
ChrisA
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