+1 to automatic str() -- this is a common newbie mistake and I can't
think of a case where you wouldn't want this to happen
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:54:46AM -0700, Michael Chermside wrote:
| Fran?ois Pinard writes:
| > [quotations from the PEP motivation] let me think that people will often
| > forget to stringify numbers and various other value types,
|
| I agree. I'd like to raise a small voice in favor of automatically
| calling str() on all arguments before interpolation. I'd rather
| type this:
|
| # ... code ...
| out.write( template("$foo\t$bar\t$baz\n") % locals() )
|
| than this:
|
| # ... code ...
| out.write( template("$foo\t$bar\t$baz\n") %
| {'foo': str(foo), 'bar': str(bar), 'baz': str(baz)} )
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