str() or repr()) would work, just not multi-value tuples. Probably not a
backport candidate, since it changes the behaviour of passing a
single-element tuple:
>>> string.Template("$foo").substitute(dict(foo=(1,)))
'(1,)'
versus
'1'
* The parameterization of "delimiter" was incomplete.
* safe_substitute's code for braced delimiters should only be executed
when braced is not None.
* Invalid pattern group names now raise a ValueError. Formerly, the
convert code would fall off the end and improperly return None.
Beefed-up tests.
* Test delimiter override for all paths in substitute and safe_substitute.
* Alter unittest invocation to match other modules (now it itemizes the
tests as they are run).
- Template no longer inherits from unicode.
- SafeTemplate is removed. Now Templates have both a substitute() and a
safe_substitute() method, so we don't need separate classes. No more
__mod__() operator.
- Adopt Tim Peter's idea for giving Template a metaclass, which makes the
delimiter, the identifier pattern, or the entire pattern easy to override
and document, while retaining efficiency of class-time compilation of the
regexp.
- More informative ValueError messages which will help a user narrow down the
bogus delimiter to the line and column in the original string (helpful for
long triple quoted strings).
This patch includes test cases and documentation updates, as well as NEWS file
updates.
This patch also updates the sre modules so that they don't import the string
module, breaking direct circular imports.
Georg Brandl
Thomas Wouters
Barry Warsaw
Neal Norwitz
Raymond Hettinger