[TIP] Teaching pylint about keyword placeholders in string formatting

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:08:13PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> A common idiom I use is::
> 
>     def frobnicate(warble):
>         foo = complex_computation()
>         bar = long.access.path.leading.to.useful.value
>         baz = (lengthy + expression * with_several_parts)
>         spangulate("%(warble)s: %(foo)s%(bar)s [%(baz)d]" % vars())
> 
> This allows the format of the string to be clear, and allows the
> separate parts of it to have meaningful names.
>
> However, this is causing pylint to complain::

For some reason I mislike the use of vars()/locals()/globals() for use
cases other than debugging, so I tend to write

          spangulate("%(warble)s: %(foo)s%(bar)s [%(baz)d]"
                     % dict(warble=warble, foo=foo, bar=bar, baz=baz))

and therefore never have the problem with pylint.  (Though I prefer
pyflakes.  Fewer erroneous warnings, or at least I got that impression.)

Strangely enough, playing with sys._getframe(1).f_globals is okay in my
book, if I really need it.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
                -- Norm Schryer
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