[Python-ideas] Draft PEP on string interpolation

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 24, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>I cannot accept $ interpolation in the language definition. I also don't
>want PEP 498 and 501 to use different interpolation syntaxes. So to me,
>this means that i18n is off the table as a motivation for PEP 501 (it never
>was on the table for 498), and Nick can focus on motivational examples from
>html/sql/shell code injection for PEP 501 (but only if he can live with the
>PEP 498 surface syntax for interpolation).

I agree with this.  Ignoring i18n, str.format() syntax is greatly preferred
over old-school %-syntax IMO, so focusing 498/501 on being compatible with the
former makes a lot of sense.  Hopefully we can continue to make %-syntax
obsolete, deprecated, or at least disfavored.

Cheers,
-Barry
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