string.Template.delimiter cannot be overriden?

[kretik]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> On Jun 16, 9:53 pm, kretik <kre... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I've been trying to coax this class to use something other than the
>> default '$' but it seems setting it to something else has no discernible
>> effect. Is it necessary to inherit from the class to do this?
> 
> Yes, subclassing is the intended way to produce variants of Template
> with a different delimiter.

OK, that makes no sense but I guess it's some sort of pythonistic thing 
or something =)

Thanks a lot for the response.