[Python-Dev] Re: Update PEP 292

[Robert Brewer]

Tim Peters wrote:
> I don't care.  The minority of Americans who want to use $ in a
> minority of templated strings in a minority of apps can learn to type
> $$, or use the ironically named SafeTemplate instead (as suggested
> earlier).
> 
> > Template("Dear ${donor}, send $100.00 to the PSF template fund.")
> 
> Which would trigger an exception, after which they type one character
> to repair it:
> 
> Template("Dear ${donor}, send $$100.00 to the PSF template fund.")

Yep. Just like they (I mean "I") have to remember to write:

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