On 3/10/2011 8:23 AM, Gerald Britton wrote: > Today I noticed that an expression like this: > > "one:%(one)s two:%(two)s" % {"one": "is the loneliest number", "two": > "can be as bad as one"} > > could be evaluated at compile time, but is not: CPython barely evaluates anything at compile time. John Nagle