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

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Ron Adam <ron3200 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ability for a format string or template to take a mapping is very
> useful.  Weather or not it's ok for that mapping to be from locals() is a
> separate issue and depends on other factors as well.  It may be perfectly
> fine in some cases, but not so in others.

I think that's the most we're ever going to have in terms of
deprecations. None of the _functionality_ of any of the examples will
be going away, but some of them will be non-recommended ways of doing
certain things. I definitely agree that taking format values from a
mapping is useful.

ChrisA