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

Robert Brewer fumanchu at amor.org
Fri Aug 20 17:23:08 CEST 2004


Tim Peters wrote:

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.")

Yep. Just like they (I mean "I") have to remember to write:

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FuManChu



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