Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > I came across this piece of code in Lib/string.py:146:
That may be artifact from the days of ASCII strings and may or may not have analog with the bytes data type. > But I'm not exactly sure string.Template should be in > Python 3 at all. It still has valid use cases (i.e. exposing safe templates to the end user). And it has features that aren't present in new-style formatting. Please learn an aversion to deprecating things (it almost never a good first reaction to seeing code in the standard library). It almost always breaks someone's code and makes migrating to Python 3 more difficult. ---------- assignee: -> barry nosy: +barry, rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24309> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
