Paul Moore wrote:

Because the second breaks if value is a tuple:

However, changing it now is going to break a huge
amount of existing code that uses %-formatting,
and in ways that 2to3 can't reliably fix.

Keeping %-formatting but breaking a large
proportion of its uses doesn't seem like a good
idea to me.

--
Greg
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