[Python-Dev] PEP 292, Simpler String Substitutions
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:54:56 -0400
> > - We can simply allow the exception (likely a NameError or
> > KeyError) to propagate.
>
> Explicit!
>
> > - We can return the original substitution placeholder unchanged.
>
> Silently guess???
I'm strongly in favor of always making missing keys an error. It
should be a KeyError when a dict is used, and a NameError when
locals/globals are looked up.
> Overall it isn't bad...it's a little weird to have a method that depends
> on sys._getframe(1) (or as the say in Tcl-land "upvar"). It may set a
> bad precedent...
No, the real implementation will be in C. C functions always have
access to locals and globals.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)