[Python-Dev] Re: Update PEP 292

[Tim Peters]

[Raymond Hettinger]
> That was a good example.
>
> However, I think we should follow Cheetah's example.

Sorry, I never heard of Cheetah before you mentioned it (& still don't
know what it is), so feel no pressure to ape it.

> That's makes it less of a pita when the template naturally contains
> dollar signs with numbers:

I don't care.  The minority of Americans who want to use $ in a
minority of templated strings in a minority of apps can learn to type
$$, or use the ironically named SafeTemplate instead (as suggested
earlier).

> Template("Dear ${donor}, send $100.00 to the PSF template fund.")

Which would trigger an exception, after which they type one character
to repair it:

Template("Dear ${donor}, send $$100.00 to the PSF template fund.")

They'll live, but not at everyone else's expense.  They're already
confused, or they wouldn't have bothered with the unnecessary braces
around "donor" <wink>.