[Python-Dev] PEP 292: method names (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Sep 13 16:44:37 CEST 2004

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 09:04, Erik Heneryd wrote:

Come to think of it, I really like the more OO-ish approach better, than to cram everything into a single class. Is the safesubstitute really that special it deserves a special method?

Yes.

Is it really the one, true way to do a "safe" substitution?

Probably not.

IIRC DOS and sh don't agree, so it's not that obvious.

I'm sorry I don't follow that one.

I say keep the inheritance thing, it's much more flexible, and delegate the KeyError condition to an overridable method.

After the lengthy discussions on python-dev, I'm viewing the role of the Template class a little differently, so I think it's fine to put them both in one class.

-Barry

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