So, like, just to point out, your example would be, with name Adam and age 10: "My Adam is, I am 10 old." Correcting your example: "My name is {name}, I

So, like, just to point out, your example would be, with name Adam and age 10: "My Adam is, I am 10 old." Correcting your example: "My name is {name}, I am {years} years old".format(name=name, years=years) So to throw that out, that one line includes the word "name" four freaking times, and years four freaking times. You say you like the verbosity of it. Why? Would you like this format yet more? "My name is {name=name}, I am {years=years} years old".format(name=name, years=years) If not why not? It's yet more verbose. I think that the reason that other people like the non-verbose format of: "My name is {name}, I am {years} years old" # assuming the presence of local variables "name" and "years" Is that, well, it's pretty obvious what's going on here, and repeating name and years a bunch more times do not, it seems, make it any more clear what's going on. A reasonable argument might be that: "My name is {name}, I am {years} years old".format() Is more clear about what's going on. But repeating the variable names is not particularly elucidating.