I've proposed on another thread the no new features are added to % formatting, specifically the PEP 3127 (Integer Literal Support and Syntax) '%b' formatting. It didn't generate any discussion, so I thought I'd bring it up in its own thread.
I'd like to see us take the position that % formatting is being phased out, if not actually starting the deprecation process. If it's being phased out, then I think it makes sense to add no new features to it. Early in the PEP 3101 (Advanced String Formatting) discussion, Guido said that he'd like to deprecate % formatting, but that it was too late in the 3.0 stage to actually do that[1] yet. I'm not sure if the thinking has changed since then, but I'm hoping that it's still desirable to do that deprecation eventually. And if it's going to be deprecated, let's not add features to it. [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-August/009621.html _______________________________________________ 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
