On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:36:41PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
I have just had the experience of writing a bunch of expressions of the form
"create index %(table)s_lid1_idx on %(table)s(%(lid1)s)" % params
and found myself getting quite confused by all the parentheses and "s" suffixes. I would *really* like to be able to write this as
"create index %{table}_lid1_idx on %{table}(%{lid1})" % params
which I find to be much easier on the eyes.
A while ago I proposed the following syntax for embedded expressions in strings, parsed at compile-time: "create index \{table}_lid1_idx on \{table}(\{lid1})" And the equivalent runtime parsed version: r"create index \{table}_lid1_idx on \{table}(\{lid1})".cook(params) testing-the-water-to-see-if-it's-PEP-time-ly yours, Oren