Question about quoting style.

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Gabriel Genellina a écrit :
> En Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:10:11 -0300, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> 
> escribi�:
> 
>> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>>> First point is that Python has no "variable interpolation".
>>
>> If you squint, it kind of does*:
>>
>>     >>> print '%(language)s has %(#)03d quote types.' % \
>>               {'language': "Python", "#": 2}
>>     Python has 002 quote types.
>>
>> You might think if the dict as a name space and the formatting operation
>> as performing interpolation--but this take on formatting might be a 
>> stretch.
> 
> Stretching more:
> 
> py> language="Python"
> py> number=4
> py> print '%(language)s has %(number)d quote types.' % locals()
> Python has 4 quote types.
> 
> Or even more:
> 
> py> from string import Template
> py> print Template('$language has $number quote 
> types.').substitute(locals())
> Python has 4 quote types.
> 

Answering to James, Carsten and Gabriel : sorry guys, but I definitively 
won't count string formatting as variable interpolation - even if, when 
used with locals(), it comes very close from a practical POV (and is 
IMHO way cleaner).