[Python-ideas] Draft PEP on string interpolation

[Mike Miller]

On 08/25/2015 11:40 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> So any function that doesn't special-case estr will "bypass" the
> escaping and pass it do it's version of the do_something() function
> without quoting.

Yes, system(command % dangerous) was dangerous and will still be.  Confining 
input to e-strings is probably not practical.  That's a good point.

-Mike