.format() color injection

[ThiefMaster]

>>> print(colorclass.Color('{red}XXX: {/red}{}').format('{green}moo{/green}'))
XXX: moo

Expected: XXX: {green}moo{/green} (with XXX: in red)
Actual: XXX: moo (with XXX: in red and moo in green)

This is especially annoying since it means one cannot use the Color class without the tag parsing.

[Robpol86]

Color.format() will return a Color instance which parses {green}, just as str.format() returns a str instance. If you don't want {green} to be parsed you'll need to feed it into str.format(). Something like print(str(colorclass.Color('{red}XXX: {/red}{}')).format('{green}moo{/green}'))

[ThiefMaster]

But as soon as I convert it back to a Color class it'll be parsed. (I'm just using the Color class to get the proper length calculation)

[Robpol86]

Hmm, true. I should fix colorclass so you can do something like .format('{{green}}moo{{/green}}'), which is what str.format() does.

[ThiefMaster]

a way that lets you create a Color instance without invoking the parsing logic at all would be nice, too

[Robpol86]

I'm not sure about that. My goal with colorclass was to mimic str. str.format() doesn't have such functionality. Hence why it supports escaping curly brackets with {{ and }}.

[ThiefMaster]

that last one wasn't format-specific, more a general suggestion to make Color() more flexible