[Python-Dev] summary of transitioning from % to {} formatting

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 10:13:59 CEST 2009


Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> If we can't find a way to make things almost transparent, we should IMO abandon
> the whole idea of a transition.

Yep - this is the reason some attempts at actual format translation
implementations started up as a result of the previous discussion.
Without that, I suspect any API transitions are going to be too much
hassle to be worthwhile.

Regards,
Nick.

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