On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:28:40 pm Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Not to mention that e.g. "%r" % s is much simpler than
> > "{0!r}".format(s) (if I got the format spec right).
>
> repr(s) is even simpler :)
Fair enough, and I see your smiley, but consider:
"X %r X" % s
"X {0!r} X".format(s)
"X " + repr(s) + " X"
I for one am excited to see advanced string formatting via .format(),
but would be very disappointed if future Python versions removed the
simplicity of %.
--
Steven
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