[Python-Dev] PEP 292, Simpler String Substitutions

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "MS" =3D=3D Martin Sj=F6gren <martin@strakt.com> writes:

    MS> What's the advantage of using ${name} and ${country} instead?

There's a lot of empirical evidence that %(name)s is quite error
prone.

BTW, you can't use locals() or globals() because you really want
globals()-overridden-with-locals(), i.e.

    d =3D globals().copy()
    d.update(locals())

vars() doesn't cut it either:

>>> help(vars)
Help on built-in function vars:

vars(...)
    vars([object]) -> dictionary
   =20
    Without arguments, equivalent to locals().
    With an argument, equivalent to object.__dict__.

-Barry