[Python-Dev] Re: Update PEP 292

[Michael Hudson]

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 02:05, Andrew Durdin wrote:
>> One thing the PEP doesn't make clear: do these templates only
>> interpolate string variables, or will they handle anything with a
>> __str__ method?
>> 
>> e.g., will the following raise an exception:
>> 
>> print Template("I am ${height} centimetres tall.") % {height: 183}
>
> In the current implementation, this will raise an exception.  

What, like a NameError for height? :-)

Sorry,
mwh

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