luser‭

It is possible to create a new formatter class by subclassing string.Formatter class and then to use it like myformatter.format("{foo:customformat}", foo=foo). It's not super-convenient though, and...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by luser‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

It is useful sometimes, for example consider a program accepting input in the form of templates. An input of "Value: {obj.field}" is more readable than "Value: {obj['field']}". Such an examp...

posted 3y ago by luser‭

I'm trying to subclass pdb to have a debugger that, in case of a call to a decorated function, can "step in" the decorated function directly and skip the decorator content altogether. A well-behave...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by luser‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by r~~‭

Though probably not the original reason, I would say it's still useful as it brings some kind of distinction between keywords and variables/columns, since SQL consists mostly of words with less pun...

posted 2mo ago by luser‭