imagine:
template=""" Hello %(name)s, how are you %(action)s""" we can use it to do things like: print template % dict (name="Guido", action="indenting") Is there an easy (i.e.: no regex) way to do get the names of all parameters? get_parameters(template) should return ["name", "action"] Python has to do this somewhere internally..... how to access this knowledge? Harald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list