[Python-Dev] %-formatting depracation
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 22 23:13:44 CET 2011
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> I think there are many people still finding %-style more practical for
> simple uses,
A lot of the sting went out of that objection when field autonumbering
was added to new-style formatting ("'%s' % (obj,)" vs
"'{}'.format(obj)" as the minimal case that correctly handles tuples).
The addition of format_map() reduces it even further.
> so this might be a case of "practicality beats purity"
> over "there should be one obvious way to do it".
I agree with that part though, just for historical reasons rather than
seeing much in the way in the way of inherent advantages with %-style
formatting.
Cheers,
Nick.
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