Alex Martelli wrote:
> As for the % operator, I never liked it -- either a builtin function,
> or even better a method of string objects, is going to be much more
> readable (and my preference would be to have it take optional
> positional arguments, corresponding to {1}, {2}, etc, and optional
> named arguments, corresponding to {name} &c).
Note that if it takes keyword arguments, but doesn't take a single
dictionary-like object (like % and string.Template.substitute do), then
you lose any ability to use clever or interesting dictionary-like
objects for substitution.
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Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org
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