[Python-3000] Implementing % formatting in terms of str.format()

[Eric Smith]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I thought I had a reasonable proposal: deprecate in 3.1, remove in
> 3.3. Adding a PendingDeprecationWarning in 3.0 would be fine. Doing
> anything in 2.6 would not be fine, except perhaps making it a
> PendingDeprecationWarning whan -3 is given.

How do you feel if I close http://bugs.python.org/issue2416 as "wont 
fix"?  I'll then update PEP 3127 (Integer Literal Support and Syntax) to 
remove mention of adding %b formatting.

Eric.