Georg Brandl wrote: > Another question w.r.t. new string formatting: > > Assuming the %-operator for strings goes away as you said in the recent blog > post, how are we going to convert string formatting (which I daresay is a very > common operation in Python modules) in the 2to3 tool? > > Of course, "abc" % anything can be converted easily. > > name % tuple_or_dict can only be converted to name.format(tuple_or_dict), > without correcting the format string. > > name % name can not be converted at all without type inference. > > Though probably the first type of application is the most frequent one, > pre-building (or just loading from elsewhere) of format strings is not so > uncommon when it comes to localization, where the format string likely > has a _() wrapped around it. > > Of course, converting format strings manually is a PITA, mainly because it's > so common. > > Georg
Actually, I was presuming that '%' would stick around for the time being, although it might be officially deprecated. Given that writing a 2to3 converter for format strings would be a project in itself, I think it's probably best to remain backwards compatible for now. -- Talin _______________________________________________ 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
