[Python-3000] PEP - string.format

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:25 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:

> While I've argued in an earlier thread that $var is more conventional, 
> honestly I don't care (except that %(var)s is not very nice).  A couple 
> other people also preferred $var, but I don't know if they have 
> particularly strong opinions either.

For the use case that string.Template was originally designed for, I
definitely agree.  OTOH, as long as we don't change string.Template, it
can still be used for simple string substitutions (hence the title of
PEP 292) where all the extra formating is unnecessary.

-Barry

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