string interpolation (was: Newbie can't figure out documentation practices)

[Fernando Perez]

Fernando Perez wrote:


> Personally I would argue that for a newbie, the fact that
> 
> print "x=%(x)s" % locals()
> 
> works
> 
> while
> 
> print "self.x=%(self.x)s" % locals()
> 
> doesn't, and that the solution requires _getframe, should be seen as a
> language wart.  _getframe is a hackish feature (which I use a lot, in fact

Just to clarify: _one_ solution, the one given in I.v.d.Kleyn's nice
example.  J. Collins' does not use _getframe, at the expense of requiring
locals/globals to be passed in explicitly.

Cheers,

f