[Python-Dev] Re: PendingDeprecationWarning

[François Pinard]

[Alex Martelli]

> I assume the duplication of oct and hex wrt '%o'% and '%x'% was the
> reason to suggest silently-deprecating the former (trying to have 'just
> one obvious way' and all that).

The same kind of reason says that `str()' and `repr()' could be faded out
in favour of `%s' and `%r' specifiers.  This is not likely to happen! :-)

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