Translating a Perl script into Python

[Alex Martelli]

"Carel Fellinger" <cfelling at iae.nl> wrote in message
news:94d4hk$1sq$1 at animus.fel.iae.nl...
    [snip]
> and yet in some circumstances even the more elaborate variant
>
>         PROC.write("%(key)s = %(value)s\n" % {key:key,
val:os.environ[key]})
>
> The latter form comes very close to the Perl way of coding, and
> is espescially suited for format strings spanning several lines.

I think this is error-prone, though -- the dictionary after the % would
have to be coded as {'key':key, 'value':os.environ[key]}.


Alex