On 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Positional arguments remove too much meaning from the template. > > Compare: > > '$user forgot to frobnicate the $file!\n' > > with > > '$1 forgot to frobnicate the $2!\n' > > Whenever the template definition and its use are not directly > adjacent, the template is that much harder to understand (i.e., > in the context of translation, one wouldn't see the arguments > passed to the template).
The operative word being *whenever*. You're thinking of the i18n use case, where the format string is separated from the arguments. I'm thinking of the non-i18n use case, where the format isalmost always a string *literal* adjacent to the arguments. I'm not at all convinced that we should attempt to find a solution that handles both use cases; most Python code never needs i18n. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
