Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On Jan 20, 2014, at 05:10 PM, Gerrit Holl wrote:
This is potentially confusing. The documentation in this section has not made any mention of %-based substitutions. Rather, a novel reader may, at this point, think that {}-based substitution is normal. I would suggest to resolve this issue by simply not mentioning %-based substitutions, replacing the sentence above by:
Templates support $-based substitutions, using the following rules:
+1 PEP 292 templates predate .format(). ---------- nosy: +barry title: Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings -> Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20314> _______________________________________