On Nov 30, 2007 8:08 AM, Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your reply seems to imply that Python 3 will have 3 different and > overlapping ways of formatting strings: %, str.format(), and > string.Template. If that is the case, it seems like overkill to me:-)
IMO string.Template is a dead experiment. My original plan was to get rid of % in favor of str.format(). This seems to have run into objections from folks who don't want to have to change their code. They have a point: when the string is not a literal, it's not possible for 2to3 to automatically convert x%y to a .format() call. So perhaps we should deprecate % formatting and get rid of it at some later time. -- --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
