[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions

[Michael Chermside]

François Pinard writes:
> [quotations from the PEP motivation] let me think that people will often
> forget to stringify numbers and various other value types,

I agree. I'd like to raise a small voice in favor of automatically
calling str() on all arguments before interpolation. I'd rather
type this:

    # ... code ...
    out.write( template("$foo\t$bar\t$baz\n") % locals() )

than this:

    # ... code ...
    out.write( template("$foo\t$bar\t$baz\n") %
        {'foo': str(foo), 'bar': str(bar), 'baz': str(baz)} )

-- Michael Chermside