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Author benjamin.peterson
Recipients belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.smith, mark.dickinson
Date 2010-10-04.16:58:45
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2010/10/4 Eric Smith <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> added the comment:
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> Right. It seemed like a hassle to have the str.format parser try to figure out what a valid identifier is, so it just passes it through.

You can always use "str.isidentifier()" (I don't remember if there's a capi).
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