[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

Changes by Barry A. Warsaw : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: New changeset 9f74deba784fc8781d13ed564f69c02ed7c331bb by Barry Warsaw in branch 'master': Improve the documentation for template strings (#856) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9f74deba784fc8781d13ed564f69c02ed7c331bb -- ___

[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: As this issue has been open for a long time, and I don't think it's worth changing the implementation, I am changing this to a documentation bug and will fix it along with the rewrites for bpo-19824 and bpo-20314 -- assignee: -> barry components: +Do

[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: I don't know that anybody relies on the current behavior and computers are now a bazillion times faster than they were in 2004, so who needs that micro optimization any more? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

Éric Araujo added the comment: See 629200d880ea for answers. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

R. David Murray added the comment: You are correct that this is a feature request as written. I think there is also a doc bug (the docs should probably mention that changing delimiter after class creation is a no-op). To add this feature the computation of the regex would need to be moved fr

[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

SilentGhost added the comment: 3.1 is in security fixes-only mode -- nosy: +SilentGhost versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12518] In string.Template it's impossible to transform delimiter in the derived class

New submission from py.user : >>> import string >>> class MyTemplate(string.Template): ... delimiter = '.' ... >>> MyTemplate.delimiter = 'x' >>> mt = MyTemplate('.field xfield') >>> mt.substitute(field=None) 'None xfield' >>> mt.delimiter 'x' >>> If I want to change the pattern string by an