[Python-3000] String formating operations in python 3k

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:44 -0700, Crutcher Dunnavant wrote:

> Well, what if we added '%{expression}s' as a formating type?
> This would make your example:
> 
> print _("%{user}s is not a member of the %{listname}s mailing list")
> 
> or even:
> 
> print _("%{utils.websafe(form.get('user'))}s is not a member of the
> %{mlist.get_name()}s mailing list")

I wouldn't use it because it would be way too easy for translators to
make catastrophic mistakes.

-Barry

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