Re: [Python-Dev] String Interpolation Best Practices

2015-09-08 Thread Mike Miller
Perhaps, here is my mention of it yesterday and response: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-September/141487.html Some have been asking for guidance on the subject though (see other links in this thread). Maybe style-guide is the wrong terminology, but the idea wasn't inte

Re: [Python-Dev] String Interpolation Best Practices

2015-09-08 Thread Mike Miller
Ok, I thought that's what you and others were asking for in previous threads. -Mike On 09/08/2015 10:32 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Sounds awfully premature. Style guides are typically updated in response to the ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-De

Re: [Python-Dev] String Interpolation Best Practices

2015-09-08 Thread Guido van Rossum
I was not asking for style rules. Maybe you're thinking of my encouraging words regarding turning PEP 502 into an overview of the thinking that led to PEP 498? Or maybe I wasn't clear enough that that's what I was encouraging. :-) On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Mike Miller wrote: > Ok, I thoug

Re: [Python-Dev] String Interpolation Best Practices

2015-09-08 Thread Guido van Rossum
Sounds awfully premature. Style guides are typically updated in response to the occurrence of bad practice in the wild, not in anticipation of such bad practice. I would give the users of Python 3.6 some more credit. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Mike Miller wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to colle

[Python-Dev] String Interpolation Best Practices

2015-09-08 Thread Mike Miller
Hi, I'd like to collect thinking on best practices that we can use as a style guide for string interpolation. Now that arbitrary expressions are very likely to be included, it is more important to set guidelines than it would otherwise be. Below is a recent post with some good ideas (though