[Python-ideas] String interpolation: environment variables, command substitution

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2015-08-26 11:20, Mike Miller wrote:
> One of the remaining questions for the string interpolation subject is whether
> to allow for easy access to environment variables and output-capture of external
> processes (aka command-substitution) as bash does.

	You can already do this with the existing proposals by interpolating an 
expression whose value is an environment variable (e.g., 'My home is 
{os.environ["HOME"]}') or whatever other data you want to interpolate. 
There's no reason to add special syntax for this.

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