Re: template strings for matching?

[Joe Strout]

On Oct 9, 2008, at 7:05 AM, skip@pobox.com wrote:

Tinohttp://docs.python.org/library/stdty...ing-operations
>
That shows how to use the template formatting as it currently
exists. To my
knowledge there is no support for the inverse operation, which is
what Joe
asked about. Given a string and a format string assign the elements
of the
string which correspond to the template elements to key/value pairs
in a
dictionary.

Right.

Well, what do y'all think? It wouldn't be too hard to write this for
myself, but it seems like the sort of thing Python ought to have built
in. Right on the Template class, so it doesn't add anything new to
the global namespace; it just makes this class more useful.

I took a look at PEP 3101, which is more of a high-powered string
formatter (as the title says, Advanced String Formatting), and will be
considerably more intimidating for a beginner than Template. So, even
if that goes through, perhaps Template will stick around, and being
able to use it in both directions could be quite handy.

Oh boy! Could this be my very first PEP? :)

Thanks for any opinions,
- Joe