automatic referencing for variables?

[sergio]

i am SURE i am using the wrong terminology...

but what i would like to do is something like this:

pageContent='''
{toc}
h1. Header Section
h2. Date:
{metadata:date}'''+date+'''{metatdata}
h2. Author:
{metadata:author}Len Sweet{metadata}
h1. Exegesis
{metadata:exegesis}'''+exegesis+'''{metadata}
h1. Text Alive
{metadata:textalive}'''+textAlive+'''{metadata}
h1. Illustrations, Illuminations, Animations:
{metadata:illustrations}'''+illustrations+'''{meta data}
h1. Worship Resources
'''

but rather than have:

'''+variable+'''

have something a little cleaner..

in php, you can do something like

text="this is text where variable = {variable}";

can you do something like that in python?

thanks!

[gene tani]

se****@village-buzz.com wrote:

i am SURE i am using the wrong terminology...

but what i would like to do is something like this:

pageContent='''
{toc}
h1. Header Section
h2. Date:
{metadata:date}'''+date+'''{metatdata}
h2. Author:
{metadata:author}Len Sweet{metadata}
h1. Exegesis
{metadata:exegesis}'''+exegesis+'''{metadata}
h1. Text Alive
{metadata:textalive}'''+textAlive+'''{metadata}
h1. Illustrations, Illuminations, Animations:
{metadata:illustrations}'''+illustrations+'''{meta data}
h1. Worship Resources
'''

but rather than have:

'''+variable+'''

have something a little cleaner..

in php, you can do something like

text="this is text where variable = {variable}";

ou can use template strings or string formatting on a dict:

http://ftp.python.org/doc/lib/node109.html
http://diveintopython.org/html_proce...ormatting.html

[Rene Pijlman]

se****@village-buzz.com:

can you do something like that in python?

All you did is show us some string literals, but I guess you're looking
for string substitution:
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

This can be simplified, they say:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/305306

There's also Template strings:
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/newstyle/lib/node105.html

--
René Pijlman

[sergio]

ah!

this looks like what i am looking for..

i will try these both out..

thanks!