On Thu, Aug 16, 2007, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> I don't know what percentage of %-formatting uses a string literal on
> the left; if it's a really high number (high 90s), I'd like to kill
> %-formatting and go with mechanical translation; otherwise, I think
> we'll have to phase out %-formatting in 3.x or 4.0.
Then there's the pseudo-literal for long lines:
if not data:
msg = "Syntax error at line %s: missing 'data' element"
msg %= line_number
Including those, my code probably has quite a few non-literals. Even
when you exclude them, going through and finding the non-literals will
cause much pain, because we do use "%" for numeric purposes and because
our homebrew templating language uses "%" to indicate a variable.
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