New Python 3.0 string formatting - really necessary?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:55:01 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote:

> C string formatting is short and a flexible enough, but it's out of
> place in a language as high level as Python3. The new syntax allows more
> flexibility, and it's better for most people that don't know C already,
> like newbies, etc.

I'm somebody who frequently argues that we shouldn't assume that 
everybody knows C. But on the other hand, we shouldn't assume that 
newbies don't know C either! % formatting is so very common that even a 
duffer like me who never learned C came to Python already knowing the 
basics of % formatting.


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Steven