From: Steven Barth <steven@midlink.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:35:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: libs/core: Add Pythonic string formatting syntax
X-Git-Tag: 0.8.0~309
X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0647fadb0a48a34fbf5af1c15532d04dd7277fd0;p=project%2Fluci.git

libs/core: Add Pythonic string formatting syntax
---

diff --git a/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua b/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua
index d8fc666233..cc15d3aeb5 100644
--- a/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua
+++ b/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua
@@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ limitations under the License.
 --- LuCI utility functions.
 module("luci.util", package.seeall)
 
+--
+-- Pythonic string formatting extension
+--
+getmetatable("").__mod = function(a, b)
+	if not b then
+		return a
+	elseif type(b) == "table" then
+		return a:format(unpack(b))
+	else
+		return a:format(b)
+	end
+end
+
+
 --
 -- Class helper routines
 --