On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> >> Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >>>> >>>> In any case, I'm willing to give the TLC to convert the whole stdlib >>>> to str.format, so I just need your permission! <wink> >>> >>> Please don't - not before % is actually deprecated (which I hope won't >>> happen until Python 4, with removal of % in Python 5, in the year >>> when I retire, i.e. 2037). >> >> Now this is news to me -- was there a discussion that changed the >> lifetime expectancy of str.__mod__? I'd always supposed it being >> deprecated at some point in 3.x.
I think Martin was attempting humor. :-) There's widespread disagreement on when we should retire %. >> Not that I'm opposed to keeping it... it *will* be a pain to migrate. > > Guido has previously said he wouldn't mind adding a > PendingDeprecationWarning to %-formatting in 3.0. I've attempted to do that > in http://bugs.python.org/issue2772. For a reason I don't understand, my > change broke test_doctest.py, so I've never applied it. For 3.0, it should be at best a SilentDeprecationWarning. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
