[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #14123: Explicitly mention that old style % string formatting has caveats

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> It would be nice to call it something else than "printf-style
> formatting". While it is certainly modelled on printf(), knowledge of C
> or printf is not required to understand %-style formatting, nor even to
> appreciate it.

-1. Calling it "printf-style" ties it in with its origins just as the
term "regex" does for the 're' module. There are printf-derived
features in quite a few high level languages; they may differ somewhat
(Pike's sprintf() can do columnar displays; PHP's vsprintf takes an
array, not some weird and mythical varargs token), but in their basics
they will be similar. The name is worth keeping.

Chris Angelico