[Python-Dev] PEP 292, Simpler String Substitutions
Delaney, Timothy
tdelaney@avaya.com
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:07:05 +1000
> From: Guido van Rossum [mailto:guido@python.org]
>
> > > > There's a lot of empirical evidence that %(name)s is quite error
> > > > prone.
> > >
> > > Perhaps an unadorned %(name) should default to %(name)s?
>
> Ambiguous, hence even more error-prone.
Fair enough. I couldn't off the top of my head think of an ambiguous case,
but of course there's
'%(thing)s'ly-yours' ...
PyChecker2 should *definitely* include checking format strings IMO,
irrespective of whether $ formatting gets in. But only as a warning (because
of the above case).
Tim Delaney