http://mathieu.fenniak.net/formatting-a-simple-function-in-python/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:37:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://mathieu.fenniak.net/formatting-a-simple-function-in-python/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Mark Eichin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://stompstompstomp.com/weblog/entries/79#comment-10 I often find it useful to pair %(foo)s with the regexp construct (?P<foo>...) which lets you do the same kind of "templating" on the input side... it paid off in a recent project where I'd done that for readability, and then had to add some horrible regexp changes to handle a special case - and didn't have to change any of the code after that point. I often find it useful to pair %(foo)s with the regexp construct (?P<foo>…) which lets you do the same kind of “templating” on the input side… it paid off in a recent project where I’d done that for readability, and then had to add some horrible regexp changes to handle a special case – and didn’t have to change any of the code after that point.

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