New-style string formatting (Was: Re: Tuple "detection")

[Daniel Dittmar]

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> is not to do string interpolation, but to simply change the syntax

I guess you meant extend, because removing % for strings would simply break
too much

> because the '%' is redundant; it's a much smaller change:

redundant only for the common case of
"string %s %s" % (value1, value2)
but not for
"string %s %s" % db.getRow ()
and not for the also quite common case of
"string %(name1)s" % locals ()

Daniel