[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus? (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:14:36 -0800

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

This doesn't work as soon as the string is not a constant. Many of the discussions at PythonLabs did not involve text included as part of an application's source, and the conversion operation would not be driven by application code but by library/service code.

Write a function or use %. This is not a good reason to add a string interpolation operator to the language. Note that this does not mean I'm against PEP 215. PEP 215 proposes to solve a different problem and should not be hijacked, IMHO.

Neil