Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 4, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> I also don't think this is a case of anti-TOOWTDI. For most situations >>> {}-strings are great (IMO), but in the specific translation domain, I >>> suspect $-strings are still better. >> >> I agree that keeping string.Template around is valid due to its focus on >> being very simple to use (especially for non-coders producing >> translation templates) >> >> However, string.Template is already set up to work for the relevant APIs >> in that domain so I don't think it will really be affected by any >> changes to the underlying language and library support for brace >> formatting. > > What if you wanted to translate log messages? Printing to a StringIO > first really isn't a very good solution.
Oh, I see what you meant now - you were pointing out that lazy formatting APIs (such as logging) already don't work properly for alternative formatting mechanisms (such as string.Template). (Although printing to a String IO doesn't seem necessary - simply pre-formatting the message seems like it should work, just as preformatting brace formatted messages already works today). The idea of adding an optional "fmt_style" callable to these APIs (defaulting to None, which would imply the use of the mod operator) is becoming more appealing... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com