>>>>> "FL" == Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:
>> def birth(self, name): country = self.countryOfOrigin['name']
>> return '${name} was born in ${country}'.sub()
FL> now explain why the above is a vast improvement over:
| def birth(self, name):
| country = self.countryOfOrigin['name']
| return join(name, ' was born in ', country)
One use case: you can't internationalize that. You /can/ translate
'${name} was born in ${country}', which might end up in some languages
like '${country} was ${name} born in'.
FL> (for extra bonus, explain how sub() can be made to
FL> execute substantially faster than a join() function)
All I care is that it runs as fast as the % operator.
-Barry
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