Erik Heneryd wrote: > Brett C. wrote: > >> The second issue was other the design of the API. Originally Template >> was a class that overrode __mod__ to make it work like string >> interpolation works now for str and unicode. But then some people >> felt a class was too heavy-handed if there was no way to change the >> way Template worked through a subclass. This obviously led to a >> desire for functions to do the work for both Template and SafeTemplate >> (similar class to Template that left in substitution points if they >> didn't match any values in the dict passed in). >> >> In the end the class design was kept thanks to Tim Peters and >> metaclasses. Tim came up with a neat way to have the regex be >> generated at class creation time through a metaclass and thus allow >> subclasses to change how Template matched substitution points and >> such, all without a performance hit at instance creation time. Use of >> __mod__ and the SafeTemplate class were removed and Template grew >> substitute and safe_substitute methods. Everyone at this point seems >> happy with the design. > > > Well, not *everyone*. OK, it now says "practically everyone". =) -Brett
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