On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Martin Geisler <m...@lazybytes.net> wrote: > I hate calling methods on string literals, I think it looks very odd to > have code like this: > > "Displaying {0} of {1} revisions".format(x, y) > > Will we be able to write this as > > "Displaying {0} of {1} revisions" % (x, y) > > too?
I doubt it. One of the major complaints about the %-style formatting was that the use of % produced (somewhat) unexpected errors because of how operator precedence works:: >>> '{0}'.format(4 + 1) '5' >>> '%s' % 4 + 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects Steve -- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that? --- The Hiphopopotamus _______________________________________________ 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