[Zope3-dev] ? vs $

[Florent Guillaume]

Steve Alexander  <steve@cat-box.net> wrote:
> I have seen code that uses python:path('foo/%s/baz' % bar)  rather than 
> foo/?bar/baz. I don't think the use of ? as an interpolation character 
> in path expressions is widely known.

It hadn't been documented anywhere until recently.

> Actually, it wouldn't take much to support both syntaxes. I'd rather 
> that the ? syntax is deprecated though.

+1: use '$' to interpolate, '$$' to escape, and keep but deprecate '?'.


Florent

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