>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
>> I agree that certain use cases make the exception problematic.
>> Think a program that uses a template entered remotely through
>> the web. That template could have misspellings in the variable
>> substitutions. In that case I think you'd like to carry on as
>> best you can, by returning a string with the bogus placeholders
>> still in the string.
GvR> That's a matter of validating the template before accepting
GvR> it.
True, which isn't hard to do. You can write a regexp to extract the
$names and then validate those. In fact, I think this is what newer
versions of xgettext do for Python code (albeit with the %(name)s
syntax).
-Barry
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4