[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions (original) (raw)
Michael Chermside mcherm at mcherm.com
Mon Aug 23 17:54:46 CEST 2004
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François Pinard writes:
[quotations from the PEP motivation] let me think that people will often forget to stringify numbers and various other value types,
I agree. I'd like to raise a small voice in favor of automatically calling str() on all arguments before interpolation. I'd rather type this:
# ... code ...
out.write( template("$foo\t$bar\t$baz\n") % locals() )than this:
# ... code ...
out.write( template("$foo\t$bar\t$baz\n") %
{'foo': str(foo), 'bar': str(bar), 'baz': str(baz)} )-- Michael Chermside
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