Feb. 11, 2009
10:44 p.m.
[Guido van Rossum]
I thought the plan was to start deprecating % in 3.1 and remove it at some later release (maybe 3.3). Or did I miss a reversal on this?
I thought we had backed-off on this for a number of reasons. * waiting to see if users actually adopt and prefer the new way * no compelling reason to force people to convert right away * need a tool for automatic conversion (this may not be easy) * the code and api for the new-way hasn't had a chance to be shaken-out and battle-tested in real-world apps yet. both the api and implementation are not yet mature (i.e. how well does it work in templating apps and whatnot). Raymond