I would like to propose a new method for the string.Template class.
What's the proper procedure for doing this? I've joined the python-
ideas list, but that seems to be only for proposed language changes,
and my idea doesn't require any change to the language at all.
From <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/>, it sounds like the
PEP process is appropriate here, though other PEPs (like <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3001/
> make it sound as though these are meant for proposals for "Python
3000", which is not necessarily my intent.
Here's a brief sketch of my proposal, in case it helps:
Add a "match" function to string.Template, which takes a text string
as a parameter. If this text string can be matched to the template,
by substituting some portion of the given string for each field of the
template, then .match returns a dictionary, where each key is a field
name and the value is the corresponding text from the input. If the
text string cannot be matched to the template, then .match returns None.
I understand that if I'm to write a PEP, I'll need to flesh this out
considerably as per PEP 0001. But that document also suggests first
discussing it here. I'm still a newbie (or actually, oldbie-turned-
nonbie-turned-newbie-again), so I could use some advice. What's the
next step in advocating for this idea?
Thanks,
- Joe
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