Specify string formats when formatting stings

[micahflee]

Some feedback:

What about specifying formats every time it's possible to do so when you're using the str.format() method instead of accessing argument by position? https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#formatspec

[micahflee]

I'm trying to figure out how to actually specify format strings using str.format(), and it's quite confusing. Right now I do stuff like this:

'This is a string {0}, and this is an int {1}'.format('foobar', 100)

But I'm not specifying types. I know I can specify types if I use the % string formatting operator, like this:

'This is a string %s, and this is an int %d' % ('foobar', 100)

But how can I specify the types while still keeping the .format() syntax?

[micahflee]

Aha, figured it out.

'This is a string {0:s}, and this is an int {1:d}'.format('foobar', 100)