pylint/checkers/utils.py
def collect_string_fields(format_string) -> Iterable[Optional[str]]:
    """ Given a format string, return an iterator
    of all the valid format fields. It handles nested fields
    as well.
    """
    formatter = string.Formatter()
    try:
        parseiterator = formatter.parse(format_string)
        for result in parseiterator:
            if all(item is None for item in result[1:]):
                # not a replacement format
                continue
            name = result[1]
            nested = result[2]
            yield name
            if nested:
                for field in collect_string_fields(nested):
                    yield field
    except ValueError as exc:
        # Probably the format string is invalid.
        if exc.args[0].startswith("cannot switch from manual"):
            # On Jython, parsing a string with both manual
            # and automatic positions will fail with a ValueError,
            # while on CPython it will simply return the fields,
            # the validation being done in the interpreter (?).
            # We're just returning two mixed fields in order
            # to trigger the format-combined-specification check.
            yield ""
            yield "1"
            return
        raise IncompleteFormatString(format_string)
def collect_string_fields(format_string) -> Iterable[Optional[str]]:
    """ Given a format string, return an iterator
    of all the valid format fields. It handles nested fields
    as well.
    """
    formatter = string.Formatter()
    try:
        parseiterator = formatter.parse(format_string)
        for result in parseiterator:
            if all(item is None for item in result[1:]):
                # not a replacement format
                continue
            name = result[1]
            nested = result[2]
            yield name
            if nested:
                for field in collect_string_fields(nested):
                    yield field
    except ValueError as exc:
        # Probably the format string is invalid.
        if exc.args[0].startswith("cannot switch from manual"):
            # On Jython, parsing a string with both manual
            # and automatic positions will fail with a ValueError,
            # while on CPython it will simply return the fields,
            # the validation being done in the interpreter (?).
            # We're just returning two mixed fields in order
            # to trigger the format-combined-specification check.
            yield ""
            yield "1"
            return
        raise IncompleteFormatString(format_string)
Given a format string, return an iterator
    of all the valid format fields. It handles nested fields
    as well.