New-style string formatting (Was: Re: Tuple "detection")

[Gerrit Holl]

[Gerrit Holl]
> > > > because the '%' is redundant; it's a much smaller change:

[Daniel Dittmar]
> > > redundant only for the common case of
> > > "string %s %s" % (value1, value2)
> > > but not for
> > > "string %s %s" % db.getRow ()

[Gerrit Holl]
> > This would become:
> > 
> > "string %s %s"(*db.getrow())

[Ian Bicking]
> Maybe you would be happy with the idea of using * and ** prefixes in
> literals (well, at least *), like:

This proposal doesn't require a syntax change, since it only adds
a __call__ method: the *t and **m syntax already exists for function
calls.

>   (a, *b, c) == (a,) + tuple(b) + (c,)

Hm, I'm not sure whether this proposal is completely sound.

> And possibly:
> 
>   {'a': b, **c} 
> meaning:
>   tmp = {'a': b}
>   tmp.update(c)

This looks good, however.

yours,
Gerrit.

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