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

[Gerrit Holl]

Daniel Dittmar schreef op dinsdag 20 mei om 19:08:16 +0000:
> > 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 ()

This would become:

"string %s %s"(*db.getrow())

And it works if getrow returns a list: now it doesn't, which is bad.

> and not for the also quite common case of
> "string %(name1)s" % locals ()

"string %(name1)s"(**locals())

It is more orthogonal with the behaviour of sequences and mappings passed to
callables.

yours,
Gerrit.

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