Myth Busters: % "this old style of formatting will eventually be removed from the language"
Ned Batchelder
ned at nedbatchelder.com
Tue May 21 23:26:58 EDT 2013
On 5/21/2013 10:26 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote:
> I was looking for something else and just found what I think is the place where I was first exposed to the myth[1]:
>
> "Since str.format() is quite new, a lot of Python code still uses the % operator. However, because this old style of formatting will eventually be removed from the language, str.format() should generally be used."
>
> Is this tutorial outdated or this still an issue?
>
> [1] http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/inputoutput.html#old-string-formatting
That tutorial is out of date. %-formatting isn't being removed.
--Ned.
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