On Tuesday 04 April 2006 23:37, Ian Bicking wrote:
> 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.
Indeed; we currently do that so we can have ConfigParser values that refer to
${section:option} to get values from elsewhere in the configuration. Very
nice to be able to do that.
I've long been in favor of supporting strings that aren't identifiers as
substitution names.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
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