Tino> ??? can you elaborate? I don't see the problem. Tino> "%(foo)s" % mapping
Joe wants to go in the other direction. Using your example, he wants a function which takes a string and a template string and returns a dict. Here's a concrete example: s = "My dog has fleas" fmt = "My $pet has $parasites" d = fmt_extract(fmt, s) assert d['pet'] == 'dog' assert d['parasites'] == 'fleas' Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list