On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 07:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > As I said Python needs an operator or function that does string > formatting using a simple template, *without* doing output at the same > time. The current syntax is the '%' operator, it could change, but it > shouldn't be removed in favor of an inflexible print-with-formatting > approach.
I believe we already have that in the constituent parts of stream.write() and Template.substitute(). I don't have any problem with the built-in print() function (or printf()) combining the two for convenience. After all, print's entire purpose is convenience. -Barry
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