Le lundi 05 septembre 2005 à 16:52 +0100, Gareth McCaughan a écrit :
... and should add: Of course it's usually seen as being about
output more than about formatting, but in fact if you want
to do what Python does with %, C with sprintf and
Common Lisp with (format nil ...) then the Right
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 12:07, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Uh, what about internationalization (i18n) ?
In i18n you can't avoid the need for parameterized strings.
For example I want to write :
_(The file '%s' is read only) % filename
not :
_(The file) + ' + filename + ' + _(is read
On Monday 2005-09-05 17:07, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le lundi 05 septembre 2005 à 16:52 +0100, Gareth McCaughan a écrit :
... and should add: Of course it's usually seen as being about
output more than about formatting, but in fact if you want
to do what Python does with %, C with sprintf and
[Barry Warsaw]
Actually, this was part of the motivation behind PEP 292 and Template
strings, because what you really want is named parameters, not
positional parameters:
'The file $filename in directory $dir is read only'
There are a few techniques for getting full i18n for Template
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:10, François Pinard wrote:
The file %(filename)s in directory %(dir)s is read only % vars()
is already usable. The need being already filled without Template
strings, it could hardly be presented as a motivation for them. :-)
Except that IME, %(var)s is an
