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

[Adam DePrince]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:01 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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.

Worse are the maintance problems when you have to change your
expression ... inside every translation of your string.  

> 
> -Barry
> 
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