[Python-Dev] Re: Update PEP 292 (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 06:34:31 CEST 2004

[Raymond Hettinger]

That was a good example.

However, I think we should follow Cheetah's example.

Sorry, I never heard of Cheetah before you mentioned it (& still don't know what it is), so feel no pressure to ape it.

That's makes it less of a pita when the template naturally contains dollar signs with numbers:

I don't care. The minority of Americans who want to use $ in a minority of templated strings in a minority of apps can learn to type , or use the ironically named SafeTemplate instead (as suggested earlier).

Template("Dear donor,send{donor}, send donor,send100.00 to the PSF template fund.")

Which would trigger an exception, after which they type one character to repair it:

Template("Dear donor,send{donor}, send donor,send$100.00 to the PSF template fund.")

They'll live, but not at everyone else's expense. They're already confused, or they wouldn't have bothered with the unnecessary braces around "donor" .

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