Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > First point is that Python has no "variable interpolation".
If you squint, it kind of does*: >>> print '%(language)s has %(#)03d quote types.' % \ {'language': "Python", "#": 2} Python has 002 quote types. You might think if the dict as a name space and the formatting operation as performing interpolation--but this take on formatting might be a stretch. James * http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list