string interpolation (Was: Newbie can't figure out documentation practices)

[Antonios Christofides]

Fernando Perez wrote:
>  The only other area where you're likely to cry a bit is proper string
>  interpolation, which sucks in python.

You could have been in my mind. My second thread to this group would be
that the only thing I'm missing badly from Perl is string interpolation.
So I asked only one of my two -unrelated- questions and got answers to
both :-)