On 8/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> STeVe> I honestly can't see the point of keeping this::
>
> >>>> '%-10s bought %02i apples for %3.2f' % ('John', 8, 3.78)
> STeVe> 'John bought 08 apples for 3.78'
>
> STeVe> alongside this::
>
> >>>> '{0:-10} bought {1:02i} apples for {2:3.2f}'.format('John', 8, 3.78)
> STeVe> 'John bought 08 apples for 3.78'
>
> STeVe> They're so similar I don't see why you think the latter is no
> STeVe> longer "easy and powerful".
>
> You mean other than:
>
> * the new is more verbose than the old
> * the curly braces and [012]: prefixes are just syntactic sugar when
> converting old to new
> * in situations where the format string isn't a literal that mechanical
> translation from old to new won't be possible
> * lots of people are familiar with the old format, few with the new
>
> ?
As I understand it, it's already been decided that {}-style formatting
will be present in Python 3. So the question is not about the merits
of {}-style formatting vs. %-style formatting. That debate's already
been had. The question is whether it makes sense to keep %-style
formatting around when {}-style formatting is so similar.
Since %-style formatting saves at most a couple of characters per
specifier, that doesn't seem to justify the massive duplication to me.
STeVe
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