[Python-ideas] Draft PEP on string interpolation

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> [...]
> I mean, it's great that the rise of languages like Python that have
> easy range-checked string manipulation has knocked buffer overflows
> out of the #1 spot, but... :-)
>
> Guido is right that the nice thing about classic string interpolation
> is that its use in many languages gives us tons of data about how it
> works in practice. But one of the things that data tells us is that it
> actually causes a lot of problems! Do we actually want to continue the
> status quo, where one set of people keep designing languages features
> to make it easier and easier to slap strings together, and then
> another set of people spend increasing amounts of energy trying to
> educate all the users about why they shouldn't actually use those
> features? It wouldn't be the end of the world (that's why we call it
> "the status quo" ;-)), and trying to design something new and better
> is always difficult and risky, but this seems like a good moment to
> think very hard about whether there's a better way.
>

Or maybe from the persistence of quoting bugs we could conclude that the
ways people slap strings together have very little effect on this category
of bugs?


> (And possibly about whether that better way is something we could put
> up on PyPI now while the 3.6 freeze is still a year out...)
>

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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