Whatever happened to String Interpolation?

[Fernando Pérez]

Ville Vainio wrote:

> Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>> That already exists: type 'python Itpl' in google.
> 
> So, it appears to be done already. What's the fuss, then? Wouldn't
> having this in the standard library suffice? Looking at the relatively
> concise syntax on Itpl, why on earth would one want an equivalent
> thing encumbering the core language?

Well, at least having it in the standard library would be IMO a big 
advancement. As it stands now, one often tries to work around it to avoid 
generating an extra dependency for a project.

Syntactic sugar is nice, but I could live with
        
        itpl('blah $foo $bar')

instead of 

        $'blah $foo $bar'

Cheers,

f