On Oct 10, 2:10 pm, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to propose a new method for the string.Template class. > What's the proper procedure for doing this? I've joined the python- > ideas list, but that seems to be only for proposed language changes, > and my idea doesn't require any change to the language at all. > > From <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/>, it sounds like the > PEP process is appropriate here, though other PEPs (like > <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3001/ > > make it sound as though these are meant for proposals for "Python > 3000", which is not necessarily my intent. > > Here's a brief sketch of my proposal, in case it helps: > > Add a "match" function to string.Template, which takes a text string > as a parameter. If this text string can be matched to the template, > by substituting some portion of the given string for each field of the > template, then .match returns a dictionary, where each key is a field > name and the value is the corresponding text from the input. If the > text string cannot be matched to the template, then .match returns None. > > I understand that if I'm to write a PEP, I'll need to flesh this out > considerably as per PEP 0001. But that document also suggests first > discussing it here. I'm still a newbie (or actually, oldbie-turned- > nonbie-turned-newbie-again), so I could use some advice. What's the > next step in advocating for this idea? > > Thanks, > - Joe
I think it's something the 're' module already does. Correct me if I'm wrong. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
