[Python-ideas] One way to do format and print

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On September 7, 2015 3:52:52 PM CDT, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>> ... and this is the other. Being available for non-literals means
>they
>> can be used with i18n, string tables, and other transformations.
>> Percent formatting is similar to what other C-derived languages have,
>> and .format() has certain flexibilities, so neither is likely to be
>> deprecated any time soon.
>
>I've never understood why .format was invented in the first place,
>rather than extending percent-formatting to have the features that it
>has over it.
>

t = (1, 2, 3)
# 400 lines later...
print '%s' % t # oops!

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