Variables in strings..

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <81324605608.20000724121203 at buz.ch>,
Gabriel Ambuehl  <gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch> wrote:
>
>print "Hello %(name)s" % var()

I much prefer writing code to build a dict and then using that.  Here's
an example:

dict = { 'foo': 'xyz', 'bar': 'pdq' }
print "Hello %(foo)s, %(bar)s" % dict

Doesn't help much with your array slices, directly, but you could easily
create a class with a __str__() method.
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