On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Isaac Morland wrote: > > I would like to add this as a method of string.Template, which I think > amounts to changing "template" to "self" and putting it in the Template > class in string.py rather than on its own. If the general idea is > approved I would be happy to make a patch.
Make a patch regardless of whether you get any approval -- someone may later have a different opinion, and writing a patch records your work. > Also, on a related issue, does it make sense to scan the template > string for invalid escape sequences in Template.__init__? For the > applications I can imagine of string.Template, I would prefer to get > an error upon creating the Template object rather than arbitrarily > later when I try to .substitute with it. No, create an is_valid() method at best. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. _______________________________________________ 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
