On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you really want to insist that the format string always used _all_ of the
>> arguments?
>
> Good point, that makes sense. For example, I would expect this to work:
>
> '{0} {2}'.format(*some_list)
>
> as long as some_list has three elements. I wouldn't expect it to fail
> just because the middle element is unused, so why should it fail if
> there are trailing elements that are unused?That's using selectors, so under my suggested semantics, that would still work - as long as it has *at least* three elements, the middle one and any extras after the third are all ignored. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
