Re: [Python-Dev] Can we please have a better dict interpolation syntax?

I'm not asking for interpolation out of the current namespace or anything like that -- just a simple extension to the current set of formats for interpolating from a dict, that could be done right now without affecting anything. I'd be willing to supply a patch if it has some chance of being accepted.

I agree that the more esoteric proposals are best left until later.

But adding to % interpolation makes it less likely that a radically different (and better) approach will be implemented, because the status quo will be closer to "good enough" without being "right". --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)