On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
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 am aware of this as your idea and possibly even as your 'plan', but not of it as a consensus plan. I sense that there may be some quiet opposition.
It's not quiet any more.
There is certainly some disconnect on the issue.
So, unless you intend a quick BDFL pronouncement, I recommend you sometime start a "Deprecate % interpolation" thread to get arguments pro and con exposed and argued.
I don't intend to force the issue. I'm disappointed though -- .format() fixes several common stumbling blocks with %(name)s and at least one with %s. Let someone else start a new thread. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)