Simple python module for reading in strings based on the PEP 3101 string.format() method

install with python setup.py install

and then simply use:

import fstring

fstring.FormatString("{0:3i} a format string")

fstring.format(...) behaves like string.format(...)

fstring.read(inputString) parses the input string according to the format string and returns a dictionary of the results

To run tests:
>>import fstring
>>fstring._runTests()