Question about quoting style.

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Oct 2 20:42:43 EDT 2007


James Stroud wrote:
> 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.
> 
> James
> 
> * http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

http://docs.python.org/lib/node40.html

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  Steve
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