string interpolation for python

Sat Mar 31 06:29:11 EDT 2012

On 3/31/2012 2:22 AM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
> Hi all,
>> I'd really like to share this idea of string interpolation for formatting.
> Let's start with some code:
>> >>> name = "Shrek"
> >>> print( "Hi, $name$!")
> Hi, Shrek!
> >>> balls = 30
> >>> print( "We have $balls$ balls.")
> We have 30 balls

You can already do essentially that without adding a special-case string 
formatting method to the general methods we already have.
 >>> balls = 5
 >>> people = 3
 >>> 'The {people} people have {balls} balls.'.format(**locals())
'The 3 people have 5 balls.'
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Terry Jan Reedy