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

[Erik Max Francis]

Antonios Christofides wrote:

> You could have been in my mind. My second thread to this group would
> be
> that the only thing I'm missing badly from Perl is string
> interpolation.

I don't know, it doesn't seem all that awful to me in Python:

>>> name = "John"
>>> age = 23
>>> "The age of %(name)s is %(age)d." % locals()
'The age of John is 23.'

More featureful than Perl string interpolation, in fact, since it can do
full printf-like handling:

>>> '%(x)04d' % {'x': 1}
'0001'

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