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Wed Oct 22 22:28:59 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039331.html

> I have just had the experience of writing a bunch
> of expressions of the form
> 
>   "create index %(table)s_lid1_idx on %(table)s(%(lid1)s)" % params
> 
> and found myself getting quite confused by all the parentheses
> and "s" suffixes. I would *really* like to be able to write
> this as
> 
>   "create index %{table}_lid1_idx on %{table}(%{lid1})" % params
> 
> which I find to be much easier on the eyes.

Wouldn't this be even better?

    "create index ${table}_lid1_idx on $table($lid1)" % params

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[Python-Dev] Can we please have a better dict interpolation syntax?