Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Issues with PEP 3101 (string formatting)

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Moore
On 24/06/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/20/07, Greg Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This sounds exactly right to me. I don't have strong feelings either > > way about attribute lookups in formatting strings, or the security > > problems they raise. But while it seems a r

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Issues with PEP 3101 (string formatting)

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Moore
On 24/06/07, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Count me as +0 on allowing a.b, and -1 on allowing a.b unless b > contains leading underscores. Rereading that, the second part didn't make sense. Assuming a.b is allowed, I'm -1 on putting restrictions on b, specifically on not allowing it to s

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Issues with PEP 3101 (string formatting)

2007-06-24 Thread Talin
Georg Brandl wrote: > Another question w.r.t. new string formatting: > > Assuming the %-operator for strings goes away as you said in the recent blog > post, how are we going to convert string formatting (which I daresay is a very > common operation in Python modules) in the 2to3 tool? > > Of cou

Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python 3000 Status Update (Long!)

2007-06-24 Thread Josiah Carlson
Brandon Craig Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ... could someone enlighten me why > > > > {,} > > > > can't be used for the empty set, analogous to the empty tuple (,)? > > And now that someone else has broken the ice regarding questions that >