On 4/22/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Removing string %-formatting would be a backwards compatibility nightmare. > I doubt there's a Python program on the planet that would continue working if > it was removed (I know most of mine would break in verbose mode). Even those > which continued to work would likely break if all commented out debugging > messages were uncommented.
The same is true for some other changes considered, e.g. the new I/O stack, all-unicode strings, and dict views. Py3k exists to *break* backwards compatibility. A format() method added to strings could be added to 2.6. Defining format() in terms of % would be a long-term disaster IMO. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
