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Re: What is this syntax ?

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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


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What is this syntax ? candide <candide@free.invalid> - 2011-06-19 15:41 +0200
  Re: What is this syntax ? Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 15:50 +0200
  Re: What is this syntax ? Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 14:58 +0100
  Re: What is this syntax ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 00:03 +1000
  Re: What is this syntax ? candide <candide@free.invalid> - 2011-06-19 17:08 +0200
    Re: What is this syntax ? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-06-19 11:39 -0400
      Re: What is this syntax ? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 09:58 -0700
        Re: What is this syntax ? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-06-19 16:20 -0400
          Re: What is this syntax ? Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio <zak.mc.kraken@libero.it> - 2011-06-19 23:06 +0200
            Re: What is this syntax ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-19 23:19 +0000
              Re: What is this syntax ? Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio <zak.mc.kraken@libero.it> - 2011-06-20 07:42 +0200
          Re: What is this syntax ? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-06-19 15:29 -0700

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