Given:
dict = {"path": "/var/blah"}
curr = "1.1"
prev = "1.0"
What's the best/shortest way to interpolate the string to generate the following:
path: /var/blah curr: 1.1 prev: 1.0
I know this works:
str = "path: %(path)s curr: %(curr)s prev: %(prev)s" % {"path": dict["path"],"curr": curr, "prev": prev}
But I was hoping there is a shorter way, such as:
str = "path: %(path)s curr: %s prev: %s" % (dict, curr, prev)
My apologies if this seems like an overly pedantic question.
Why not:
mystr = "path: %s curr: %s prev: %s" % (mydict[path], curr, prev)
BTW, I've changed a couple names you were using that trample upon builtin names -- don't do that, it's never needed and once in a while will waste a lot of your time tracking down a misbehavior it causes (where something's using the builtin name assuming it means the builtin but you have hidden it with the name of our own variable).