[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus?

[Fredrik Lundh]

paul wrote:
> Your strategy requires the naive user to learn a) the $ syntax, b) the
> magic operator syntax and c) the meaning of the locals() function. Plus
> you've thrown away the idea that interpolation works as it does in the
> shell or in Perl/Awk/Ruby etc.
> 
> At that point, in my mind, we're back where we started and should just
> use %.

    # interpolate!
    s = I('Joe has $ ', a, ' in his pocket.')

or perhaps

    # print-like interpolation
    s = P('Joe has $', a, 'in his pocket.')

works pretty well too.  in all versions of python, with all existing
syntax-aware tools.  and if written in C, it's probably as fast as
any other solution...

(implementing I/P is left as an exercise etc etc)

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