RFC: string Multiline Formatter

[creative-resort]

BPO	44722
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @ericvsmith, @creative-resort
PRs	bpo-44722: Added a Multiline Formatter #27301

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[creative-resort]

I'm opening this issue to propose the following enhancement
and a PR on GitHub.

Concerning: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/string.py

The idea:
Format strings, that are comprised of field values with newlines (Multiline)
as Multiline strings in a quasi tabbed format.

--> In particular useful for logging of information, that occupies multiple lines.

For example: '{levelname}:{name}:{message}:{api}',
where the message and the api field is a string with multiple lines (contains newlines)

The result: 2021-07-23 09:50:28,981 module_name WARNING Quota exceeded Google-Cloud-API
Backing off for 5s version: v1
after trying 2x

[ericvsmith]

Can you provide a specification of what this class does? You’ve given an example, but not a description of the behavior.

[creative-resort]

Thank you.

In the process of providing that description I also just realized – after also seeing the build fail – that I'm making use of a library which is not part of the core (llist) for a doubly linked list.

That dependency is most probably a deal breaker and would require refactoring.

[terryjreedy]

I suggest you close this issue and if you have an improved code, propose it on python-ideas list for discussion.

[creative-resort]

Thank you for your kind guidance :)