[docs] [issue16432] Template strings documentation in Python 3 refers to % substitution in present tense

Andrew Gorcester report at bugs.python.org
Wed Nov 7 22:28:24 CET 2012


New submission from Andrew Gorcester:

Documentation here: http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#template-strings says "Instead of the normal %-based substitutions, Templates support $-based substitutions..."

I believe it is confusing to refer to %-based substitutions in a way that implies they still exist in Python 3.  It would be better to fix this to either refer to {} substitution or to remove the reference comparing it to normal string substitution altogether.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 175123
nosy: andrewsg, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Template strings documentation in Python 3 refers to % substitution in present tense
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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