On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio <zak.mc.kra...@libero.it> wrote: > Roy Smith wrote: > >> There's something nice about building up strings in-line, as >> opposed to having to look somewhere to see what's being interpolated. >> To give a more complex example, consider: >> >> print "$scheme://$host:$port/$route#$fragment" >> >> That certainly seems easier to me to read than: >> >> print "%s://%s:%s/%s#%s" % (scheme, >> port, >> host, >> route, >> fragment) >> >> because I don't have to line up the nth format specifier with the nth >> data item. > > well, in python3 you can use dict to format strings > >>>> print("%(a)s" % {'a':'b'}) > b > > and you can achieve php interpolation via locals() > >>>> a = 'b' >>>> print("%(a)s" % locals()) > b > > > -- > By ZeD
That's a lot older than Python 3. Here's the example from the 2.3 docs: http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/lib/typesseq-strings.html Python 3 added a different syntax for string formatting, using .NET's formatting syntax instead of C's. "{scheme}://{host}:{port}/{route}#{fragment}".format(locals()) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list