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format
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Format is an open-source C++ library that provides
string formatting functionality similar to `str.format
<http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`__
in Python.
Format is an open-source string formatting library for C++.
It can be used as a type-safe alternative to `printf` or as a fast
alternative to IOStreams.
Features
--------
* `Format string syntax
* Two APIs: faster concatenation-based write API and slower (but still fast)
replacement-based format API with positional arguments for localization.
* Write API similar to the one used by IOStreams but much faster and more
consistent.
* Format API with `format string syntax
<http://vitaut.github.com/format#format-string-syntax>`__
similar to the one used by `str.format
<http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`__ in Python.
* Support for user-defined types.
* High speed: performance of the current implementation is close to that of
* High speed: performance of the format API is close to that of
glibc's ``printf`` and better than performance of IOStreams. See
`Speed tests`_.
* Small code size both in terms of source code (format consists of a single