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Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	eric.araujo, eric.smith, gosella, mark.dickinson, mrabarnett
Date	2010-06-15.01:25:43
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Message-id	<1276565146.65.0.615976447841.issue7951@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Your original: "{0[-1]}".format('fox') is a worse gotcha than: "{-1}".format('fox') because you're much less likely to want to do the latter. It's one of those things that it would be nice to have fixed, or we could just add a warning to the documentation that it _might_ be fixed in the future, so people shouldn't rely on the current behaviour. :-)

Your original:

    "{0[-1]}".format('fox')

is a worse gotcha than:

    "{-1}".format('fox')

because you're much less likely to want to do the latter.

It's one of those things that it would be nice to have fixed, or we could just add a warning to the documentation that it _might_ be fixed in the future, so people shouldn't rely on the current behaviour. :-)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-06-15 01:25:47	mrabarnett	set	recipients: + mrabarnett, mark.dickinson, eric.smith, eric.araujo, gosella
2010-06-15 01:25:46	mrabarnett	set	messageid: <1276565146.65.0.615976447841.issue7951@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-06-15 01:25:44	mrabarnett	link	issue7951 messages
2010-06-15 01:25:43	mrabarnett	create