On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:51 AM, nick.coghlan python-checkins@python.org wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a3f27289ec68 changeset: 79746:a3f27289ec68 branch: 3.3

•       except Exception as exc:
  

•           print('%r generated an exception: %s' % (url, exc))
        else:
  

•           print('%r page is %d bytes' % (url, len(future.result())))
  

•           print('%r page is %d bytes' % (url, len(data)))
  

I'm not suggesting this particular example be changed, but going forward should we prefer the newer str.format() approach to formatting?

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatt...

I've also seen references in the docs to the "old %-style formatting," but maybe old is meant more in the sense of having been around longer than discouraged.

--Chris