Custom Format Specifiers for Python Classes

Today we learn how to create our own custom format specifiers for our Python classes.

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[redcraft]

7:55 Using a format specifier inside a formatting function, peak humour!

[allan_c]

Thanks! I got some ideas to improve my module caled eletrica, that intends to be a simple way to calculate values in operations between rectangular (impedances) and polar (phasors)

[JLSXMK]

***UPDATE: I cannot use PyCharm for any of my upcoming Python practice projects via these tutorials. I tried upgrading my PyCharm version a few weeks ago, and ended up losing it forever due to the new installation containing a virus. I will swap to using Visual Studio Code for the foreseeable future.***

This is so cool! So now, you can have a number class that, say, can have a hexadecimal, binary, octal, decimal, perhaps base64 representation, etc. and override the "def __format__(self, format_spec: str)" method to return the corresponding format for each of those options. That's very handy!!!

[thomasgoodwin]

Dude! Working sick? Totally beast, but you really need to look after your health! Take care of yourself Brah! You're still young so it's easy now, but every time you do this makes the subsequent ones that much harder (voice of experience).

As to format specifiers, 🤔, , , great ... more boilerplate code to have to knock out for every class. 🤕
IDK. I can see this being good maybe for some specific use cases, like padding time for hourly coders or typing skills practice maybe?
Just kidding, yeah I CAN see it being useful ... ish, and actually rather cool. If I were fleshing out an API for publication as an example.
I am probably in a minority here, but as a casual coder with responsibility for the entire project, I find myself looking for ways to decrease my typing.
Slogging through vast wastelands of boilerplate, whether it's getters and setters in Java, or __str__, __repr__, if __name__ == "__main__" ... blah blah in Python, on and on (kinda like my comments😉), really sux having to write the same code, over and over, every time. Takes all the fun and muse out of coding imo.
As an observation of a 45+ year coder, I can say that no language is immune (though some clearly better than others), and that it generally gets worse with time as a language matures.

Hoping you're feeling better soon. ✌and ❤
🖖😎👍

[Snakyy]

Why not just use class.method() instead? What does this have over regular class functions?

[archardor]

Ok, but why? Why would you even use that? How is that any better than just returning the polar coordinates from a normal method and not having it tied to formatting?