From 7ce90743a1948680f409bcc02f56f4f100df1a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric V. Smith" Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:43:50 -0400 Subject: Issue #13598: Add auto-numbering of replacement fields to string.Formatter. --- Lib/string.py | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Lib/string.py') diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py index b57c79b75e5..72a09f72898 100644 --- a/Lib/string.py +++ b/Lib/string.py @@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ class Formatter: self.check_unused_args(used_args, args, kwargs) return result - def _vformat(self, format_string, args, kwargs, used_args, recursion_depth): + def _vformat(self, format_string, args, kwargs, used_args, recursion_depth, + auto_arg_index=0): if recursion_depth < 0: raise ValueError('Max string recursion exceeded') result = [] @@ -185,6 +186,23 @@ class Formatter: # this is some markup, find the object and do # the formatting + # handle arg indexing when empty field_names are given. + if field_name == '': + if auto_arg_index is False: + raise ValueError('cannot switch from manual field ' + 'specification to automatic field ' + 'numbering') + field_name = str(auto_arg_index) + auto_arg_index += 1 + elif field_name.isdigit(): + if auto_arg_index: + raise ValueError('cannot switch from manual field ' + 'specification to automatic field ' + 'numbering') + # disable auto arg incrementing, if it gets + # used later on, then an exception will be raised + auto_arg_index = False + # given the field_name, find the object it references # and the argument it came from obj, arg_used = self.get_field(field_name, args, kwargs) @@ -195,7 +213,8 @@ class Formatter: # expand the format spec, if needed format_spec = self._vformat(format_spec, args, kwargs, - used_args, recursion_depth-1) + used_args, recursion_depth-1, + auto_arg_index=auto_arg_index) # format the object and append to the result result.append(self.format_field(obj, format_spec)) -- cgit v1.2.3