Variable Interpolation - status of PEP 215

[Aahz]

In article <ouit4e63fr.fsf at andlx-anamika.cisco.com>,
Ganesan R  <rganesan at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>I am a relative newbie to Python. I have a reasonably good perl background
>(don't worry I am not about to start a language flame war :-), and one of
>the things I really miss is variable interpolation in strings. I searched
>the net and found PEP 215 (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0215.html). This
>seems to be exactly what I need. The proposal seems to be quite old, so I'd
>like to know if it's still in consideration or has it been dropped
>completely?

Peter already told you what you really wanted to know, but for the
benefit of other people, PEP 215 is dead and PEP 292 is currently the
subject of a LARGE thread on python-dev.
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