[Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:48:07 am Greg Ewing wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > - remove support for passing a single value to a format string
> > without wrapping it in an iterable first
>
> But won't that clobber a large number of the simple
> use cases that you want to keep %-formatting for?

Yes, I don't particularly see the advantage of writing:

"spam %s spam" % (value,)

over 

"spam %s spam" % value

Why require the first version?


-- 
Steven