[Python-ideas] Deprecating rarely used str methods

[Bruce Leban]

On Aug 8, 2013 12:42 PM, "Serhiy Storchaka" <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> you can write just
>
>     print('|%-20s|%8s|' % (name, value))
>
> or
>
>     print('|{:<20}|{:>8}|'.format(name, value))
>
> which are shorter and cleaner.

In what universe are those cleaner? I have to think much harder to figure
out what they mean and a typo may completely mangle it w/o failing.

Deprecation should be used for removing things that cause problems not for
"cleaning up" things that are working fine. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

--- Bruce
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