Feb. 16, 2009
9:50 p.m.
Terry Reedy wrote:
The purpose of my proposal is to make the simple case simple. In terms of keystrokes, unshift - . - shift is as bad as unshift - 0 - shift.
I have this mostly implemented in ''.format(), despite my earlier statement that I was done playing with it after the sample that's attached to http://bugs.python.org/issue5237. Now that I have this working in the core, I find Terry's argument above quite convincing. Not having to do the shift-unshift-shift dance to type in the format placeholder really does make it easier to use for the simple cases. I'm seeing this as a definite improvement.