Glenn Linderman wrote: > 1) Both the format message and all the parameters are supplied in a > single API call. This is really a foolish API, because > > def API( fmt, p1, p2, p3 ): > str = fmt % (p1, p2, p3) > > could have just as easily been documented originally as > > def API( str ): > > where the user is welcome to supply a string such as > > API( fmt % (p1, p2, p3 )) > > and if done this way, the conversion to .format is obvious... and all > under the users control.
The lazy APIs actually make a lot of sense, particularly when there is a chance that the function being called may be able to avoid the formatting call altogether. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
