[Python-ideas] Where/how to propose an addition to a standard module?

[Steven Bethard]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Joe Strout <joe at strout.net> wrote:
>   >>> from string import Template
>   >>> s = Template('$name was born in ${country}')
>   >>> print s.match('Guido was born in the Netherlands')
>   {'name':'Guido', 'country':'the Netherlands'}
>   >>> print s.match('Spam was born as a canned ham')
>   None

If I were proposing something like this, I'd be using the new
formatting syntax that's supposed to become the standard in Python
3.0:

  http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/string.html#format-string-syntax

That would mean something like::

  '{name} was born in {country}'

Steve
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