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. -- Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com