Barry A. Warsaw writes: > I can't say whether it's a good thing to add this to the language or > not. I tend to think that %(var)s is just fine from a Python > programmer's point of view, and in the interest of TOOWTDI, we don't We're definately seeing a lot of reasonable concern over adding another formatting operator, and my own interest in the proposal has nothing to do with having an operator to do this. I probably shouldn't have said anything about the topic (I don't recall even noting a preference, myself, just that I'd read one alternative differently than Marc-Andre and that another already had a meaning). > From a /non-programmer's/ point of view, %(var)s is way too error > prone, and $-strings are an attempt at implementing a simple to > explain, hard to get wrong, rule for thru-the-web supplied template How the string was obtained is irrelevant, only that it is not part of the source code and the author may not be a programmer. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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