[Python-ideas] Deprecating rarely used str methods

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> I would add str % stuff to the list of things that should be
> deprecated... has anyone done any work on a converter for that, that
> could be included in a hypothetical 3to4?

Why should it be deprecated, though? This keeps coming up - it's too
useful to throw away. The sprintf codes are well known from other
languages, and they're expressive. The only change I might support
would be making it an actual function 'sprintf' rather than an
operator on the str class, but that feels like bikeshedding and
completely unnecessary incompatibility.

ChrisA