Variable Interpolation - status of PEP 215

[Gerhard Häring]

* Ganesan R <rganesan at myrealbox.com> [2002-06-20 08:50 +0530]:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a relative newbie to Python. I have a reasonably good perl background
> (don't worry I am not about to start a language flame war :-), and one of
> the things I really miss is variable interpolation in strings. I searched
> the net and found PEP 215 (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0215.html). This
> seems to be exactly what I need. The proposal seems to be quite old, so I'd
> like to know if it's still in consideration or has it been dropped
> completely?
 
It's currently being discussed on the python-dev mailing list.  I
personally find the "%(substname)s" % {"substname": "somevalue"} scheme
good enough, and don't see the point of the PEP. Maybe one reason is
that I haven't actually read it. <0.5 wink>

Gerhard
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