[Python-ideas] Deprecating rarely used str methods

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:14 PM, <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

> ..
>
> What exactly was the sufficient grounds for adding str.format, and for
> giving it its own minilanguage instead of using the one % already uses
> [with extensions like being able to use both positional arguments and
> %(keyword)s, and maybe something like %1$s for explicit positional
> arguments]?
>

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/
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