Claudiu Popa <cp...@bitdefender.com> writes: > Hello,
(Please don't top-post. Instead, interleave your responses below each quoted part you're responding to, as in this message. See also <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style>.) > Isn't this similar to php interpolation? And quite readable imo. > > >>> import string > >>> template = string.Template("$scheme://$host:$port/$route#$fragment") > >>> template.substitute(scheme="http", host="google.com", port="80", > >>> route="", fragment="") > 'http://google.com:80/#' > >>> This style is so useful that a very similar system was proposed, and accepted, in PEP 3101 as a method of the built-in types. It makes most uses of the ‘string.Template’ class obsolete. The text types (‘str’, ‘unicode’) now have a very similar capability as part of the type. Works in Python 2.6 or later, and Python 3 or later. >>> template = "{scheme}://{host}:{port}/{route}#{fragment}" >>> template.format(scheme="http", host="google.com", port="80", route="", fragment="") 'http://google.com:80/#' “This method of string formatting is the new standard in Python 3.0, and should be preferred to the % formatting described in String Formatting Operations in new code.” <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.format> -- \ “Room service? Send up a larger room.” —Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
