On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 8:50 PM Jamesie Pic <j...@yourlabs.org> wrote: > > For me, assembling a string from various variables is a much more > common programing task, because that's how users except software to > communicate with them, be it on CLI, GUI, or through Web. > > It doesn't matter if your software works and the user doesn't > understand it. It doesn't matter if your software doesn't work, as > long as the user understands it. > > I wonder what makes my use case so special, perhaps because when I > make software it's always on the purpose to serve an actual human > being need ?
Most places where you need to talk to humans, you'll end up either interpolating the values into a template of some sort (see: percent formatting, the format method, and f-strings), or plug individual values straight into method calls (eg when building a GUI). I'm not sure why or how your use-case is somehow different here. It's generally best to provide simple low-level functionality, and then let people build it into whatever they like. For example, VLC Media Player and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive don't have any means of interacting, but with some simple Python programming in between, it's possible to arrange it so that the music automatically pauses while you're in a match. But there does NOT need to be a game feature "automatically pause VLC while in a match". Joining a collection of strings is possible. Stringifying a collection of arbitrary objects is possible. There doesn't need to be a single feature that does both at once. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
