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

[Cameron Simpson]

On 26Feb2012 15:33, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
| One thing I'd like to see happening regardless is support for
| new-style formatting in the logging module. It's a little tricky to
| think how that would work, alas -- should this be a property of the
| logger or of the call?

Surely the call? The caller doesn't necessarily know anything about the
loggers in play, so if a logger sprouts different message formating
syntax the caller is hosed.
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