.format vs. %

[Ian Kelly]

On Jan 3, 2012 6:55 AM, "Ethan Furman" <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> Ian Kelly wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure it's true that "there are no plans to do so in the
>> foreseeable future."  According to the release notes from Python 3.0,
>> % formatting was supposed to be deprecated in Python 3.1.
>
>
> Eric Smith wrote (from a thread on pydev in 02-2011):
> > The last thread on this I have a reference to was in September 2009. I
> > think was basically the outcome:
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-September/092399.html
> >
> > So there will be no deprecation, just a gradual shift to PEP 3101
> > formatting.

Thanks, that link is very informative.
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