Alex Martelli wrote:
If %(name)s is to be deprecated moving towards Python-3000 (surely it can't be _removed_ before then), $-formatting needs a very rich feature set; otherwise it can't _replace_ %-formatting. It seems to me that (assuming $ formatting IS destined to get into Python) $ formatting should then be introduced with all or most of the formatting power it eventually needs, so that those who want to make their programs Py3K-ready can use $ formatting to replace all their uses of %(name)s formatting.
I haven't jumped into this discussion since I thought that you were only discussing some new feature which I don't have a need for. Now if you want to deprecate %(name)s formatting, the situation is different: my tie would start jumping up and down, doing funny noises :-) So just this comment from me: please don't deprecate %(name)s formatting. For the rest: I don't really care. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/ Meet us at EuroPython 2002: http://www.europython.org/