2001 Enchancement Wishlist

[Fredrik Lundh]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> 2. There is already a PEP to extend the eval() function which is currently
>     limited to dictionaries.  The goal is to accept any object defining
>     __getitem__() so that any mapping object can be used to specify the
>    globals and locals.   I recommend that we extend the same courtesy to
>    the % string formatting operator.  For example:
>
>              print "Spam with %s, eggs, and spam" % aUserDictionary

this already works -- if you use dictionary formatting
operators:

class D:
    def __getitem__(self, name):
        return name

d = D()

print "%(spam)s %(egg(10))s" % d

# prints spam egg(10)

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