Commit 4b99e9b4 authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Shorten some overlong lines.

parent 36897e1f
......@@ -143,12 +143,14 @@ the position of the object passed into the format method. ::
If keyword arguments are used in the format method, their values are referred to
by using the name of the argument. ::
>>> print 'This {food} is {adjective}.'.format(food='spam', adjective='absolutely horrible')
>>> print 'This {food} is {adjective}.'.format(
... food='spam', adjective='absolutely horrible')
This spam is absolutely horrible.
Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined::
>>> print 'The story of {0}, {1}, and {other}.'.format('Bill', 'Manfred', other='Georg')
>>> print 'The story of {0}, {1}, and {other}.'.format('Bill', 'Manfred',
... other='Georg')
The story of Bill, Manfred, and Georg.
An optional ``':``` and format specifier can follow the field name. This also
......@@ -176,7 +178,8 @@ instead of by position. This can be done by simply passing the dict and using
square brackets ``'[]'`` to access the keys ::
>>> table = {'Sjoerd': 4127, 'Jack': 4098, 'Dcab': 8637678}
>>> print 'Jack: {0[Jack]:d}; Sjoerd: {0[Sjoerd]:d}; Dcab: {0[Dcab]:d}'.format(table)
>>> print ('Jack: {0[Jack]:d}; Sjoerd: {0[Sjoerd]:d}; '
... 'Dcab: {0[Dcab]:d}'.format(table))
Jack: 4098; Sjoerd: 4127; Dcab: 8637678
This could also be done by passing the table as keyword arguments with the '**'
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