On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use Python's new style string formatting with a dict and
> string together.
>
> For example, I have the following dict and string variable:
>
> my_dict = { 'cat': 'ernie', 'dog': 'spot' }
> foo = 'lorem ipsum'
>
> If I want to just use the dict, it all works fine:
>
> '{cat} and {dog}'.format(**my_dict)
> 'ernie and spot'
>
> (I'm also curious how the above ** works in this case).
>
> However, if I try to combine them:
>
> '{cat} and {dog}, {}'.format(**my_dict, foo)
> ...
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
Here you almost have it right. If you flip the arguments around to look
like:
'{cat} and {dog}, {}'.format(foo, **my_dict)
it will work as you expect.
The issue is that you cannot specify positional arguments (foo) after
keyword arguments (**my_dict).
In the code you tried, what Python is doing is:
'{cat} and {dog}, {}'.format(cat=ernie, dog=spot, foo)
which, if tried, provides the nicer error message of "SyntaxError:
non-keyword arg after keyword arg".
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