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

[Geoffrey Talvola]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido:
> 
>> Wouldn't this be even better?
>> 
>>     "create index ${table}_lid1_idx on $table($lid1)" % params
> 
> I wouldn't object to that. I'd have expected *you* to
> object to it, though, since it re-defines the meaning
> of "$" in an interpolated string. I was just trying
> to suggest something that would be backward-compatible.
> 

$ is currently unused in Python AFAIK.  So why not:

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

No backward compatibility problems at all.

- Geoff