Suggestion for fixing %(foo)s (Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 292-related: why string substitution is not the same operation as data formatting)

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:
> Somebody else:
> > Guido, can you please, for our enlightenment, tell us what are the
> > reasons you feel %(foo)s was a mistake?
> 
> Because of the trailing 's'.  It's very easy to leave it out by
> mistake

How about introducing a new format

  %{foo}

which is defined to be the same as %(foo)s.

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