[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions (original) (raw)

Clark C. Evans cce at clarkevans.com
Mon Aug 23 18:12:33 CEST 2004

+1 to automatic str() -- this is a common newbie mistake and I can't think of a case where you wouldn't want this to happen

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:54:46AM -0700, Michael Chermside wrote: | Fran?ois 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)} )

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