[Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jun 6 05:37:50 CEST 2008
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> %r is about the worst case for the new syntax relative to the old - two
> characters become 5. It's worth looking at what those extra characters
> buy us though:
However, those benefits are only realised some of the
time, and it's only in rare cases that they're all
realised at once. The cost-benefit analysis needs to
take the entropy into account somehow.
--
Greg
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