[Tutor] 2 vs 3

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/09/2015 12:34, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:32:32AM +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> In a message of Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:16:16 +0100, Alan Gauld writes:
>>
>>> And of course if you are really moving to the v3 way of
>>> doing things you should move to using the new string
>>> formatting style.
>>
>> I don't think there is any great push to prefer the new style over
>> the old style 'just because' when you are doing simple things.
>
> If you're referring to "%s" % x versus "{}".format(x), no, there's no
> official push for format. They tried that, but the push-back from people
> who like the %s formatting was too large.
>
> %s formatting is NOT deprecated, and will not be any time in the
> forseeable future;

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/969817
http://bugs.python.org/issue14123

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