[Python-3000] Proposed changes to PEP3101 advanced string formatting -- please discuss and vote!

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On 3/12/07, Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Feature: Ability to pass in a dictionary or tuple of dictionaries of
> namespaces to search.
>
> This feature allows, in some cases, for much more dynamic code than
> *kwargs.  (You could manually smush multiple dictionaries together to
> build kwargs, but that can be ugly, tedious, and slow.)
> Implementation-wise, this feature and locals() / globals() go hand in
> hand.

+1

I can think of many cases where it'd be nice to pass locals() along
with some_row_from_SQL.

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