automatic referencing for variables?

[sergio@village-buzz.com]

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+'''{me tatdata}
h2. Author:
{metadata:autho r}Len Sweet{metadata}
h1. Exegesis
{metadata:exege sis}'''+exegesi s+'''{metadata}
h1. Text Alive
{metadata:texta live}'''+textAl ive+'''{metadat a}
h1. Illustrations, Illuminations, Animations:
{metadata:illus trations}'''+il lustrations+''' {metadata}
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]

Re: automatic referencing for variables?


sergio@village-buzz.com wrote:[color=blue]
> 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+'''{me tatdata}
> h2. Author:
> {metadata:autho r}Len Sweet{metadata}
> h1. Exegesis
> {metadata:exege sis}'''+exegesi s+'''{metadata}
> h1. Text Alive
> {metadata:texta live}'''+textAl ive+'''{metadat a}
> h1. Illustrations, Illuminations, Animations:
> {metadata:illus trations}'''+il lustrations+''' {metadata}
> 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}";
>[/color]

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

http://ftp.python.org/doc/lib/node109.html

http://diveintopython.org/html_processing/dictionary_based_string_formatting.html

[Rene Pijlman]

Re: automatic referencing for variables?

sergio@village-buzz.com:[color=blue]
>can you do something like that in python?[/color]

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/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305306

There's also Template strings:

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/newstyle/lib/node105.html

--
René Pijlman

[sergio@village-buzz.com]

Re: automatic referencing for variables?

ah!

this looks like what i am looking for..

i will try these both out..

thanks!