New Python 3.0 string formatting - really necessary?

[Ben Finney]

Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> writes:

> Personally the new string formatter is sorely needed in Python. And
> they way it has been implemented is a thing of beauty. Basically the
> burden of formatting strings has been moved from the print
> statement/function to the objects themselves.

This doesn't describe a difference between Python 2.x and Python 3.0.
The string formatting in Python 2.x is nothing to do with ‘print’,
it's implemented in the function that handles the ‘%’ operator for
strings.

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Ben Finney