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Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python by contravariant on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:02PM (#26083678)
The real question is why they didn't just write:

    greet = greeting.format
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Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python by linkdd on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:15PM (#26083817)
It was implying you could use the str.format function as argument to other computations, something you cannot do with f-strings.
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