[Python-Dev] extended print statement, uPre-PEP

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Paul Prescod wrote:
> As happy as I am to have it called Prescod-ese, I admit to influence
> from some languages that (otherwise) suck. :)

I agree that formatting and interpolation is one area where Perl is
much stronger, and it should be easy to do such things in Python.

> credit-where-due 'ly yrs
 
I kind of hate to do this, but i can't restrain myself from pointing
out that i *did* propose just this solution quite recently, in:

    http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-July/012764.html

I wrote a module to do this a few years ago (1996, i think).  It
supported attribute lookup, item lookup, and expressions.  (No one
has yet mentioned the issue of escaping the dollar sign, which i
handled by doubling it.)

See the exact rules described, with examples, at

    http://www.lfw.org/python/Itpl.html

If you want to play, just download

    http://www.lfw.org/python/Itpl15.py

and try the itpl() function in the module.

I would be quite pleased if (for example) $"" performed the
equivalent of a function call to itpl() on the enclosed string.


Apologetically (& only *gently* indignant),
 

-- ?!ng