[Python-3000] Proposed changes to PEP3101 advanced string formatting -- please discuss and vote! (original) (raw)

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Tue Mar 13 16:49:42 CET 2007

On 3/12/07, Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com> wrote:

Feature: Ability to pass in a dictionary or tuple of dictionaries of namespaces to search.

This feature allows, in some cases, for much more dynamic code than *kwargs. (You could manually smush multiple dictionaries together to build kwargs, but that can be ugly, tedious, and slow.) Implementation-wise, this feature and locals() / globals() go hand in hand.

+1

I can think of many cases where it'd be nice to pass locals() along with some_row_from_SQL.

-- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises LLC

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