... > That, by the way, is perhaps the biggest problem with this idea of
> dynamic strings: not that it is too powerful, but that it is TOO WEAK. ... > and similar for both format() and Template. Seems you miss understood my notion of dynamic string. Dynamic strings are expressions in disguise: the things in between $...$ are plain old expressions (with optional formatting specifications). They are evaluated as if they were outside the dynamic string. We put them in there to to kill two birds with one stone: 1) ease of reading; 2) place holding. Cheers, Yingjie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list