Raymond Hettinger wrote:
PROPOSAL: Allow the simple case to stay simple. Allow field names to be omitted for all fields in a string and then default to 0, 1, ... so that example above could be written as
msg = "{} == {}".format
Given that computers are glorified counting machines, it *is* a bit annoying to be required to do the counting manually. I think this is at least half the objection to switching to .format.
+1 -- given this, I would remove half my objection to .format(); the rest has mostly to do with backward compatibility as explained previously.
+1 from here also.
http://bugs.python.org/issue5237 This idea was pulled to full consciousness by your comment that we should tweak .format(), based on use experience, before deprecating % interpolation. tjr