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

[Ian Bicking]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> As for the % operator, I never liked it -- either a builtin function,  
> or even better a method of string objects, is going to be much more  
> readable (and my preference would be to have it take optional  
> positional arguments, corresponding to {1}, {2}, etc, and optional  
> named arguments, corresponding to {name} &c).

Note that if it takes keyword arguments, but doesn't take a single 
dictionary-like object (like % and string.Template.substitute do), then 
you lose any ability to use clever or interesting dictionary-like 
objects for substitution.

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