On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote:
> 2012/2/24 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshep...@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was of the thought that Old String Formatting |"%s" % foo| was to be
>> phased out by Advanced String Formatting |"{}.format(foo)|. I however
>> keep seeing new code committed into the main VCS using the old style.
>> Is this okay? Is there a policy? I ask also because I expect CPython
>> to lead by example.
>
> Using either is fine I think. It doesn't hurt anyone to have old
> string formatting around for a long time. In general, +0 for using new
> string formatting.Yep. Also, the two can work nicely in tandem as templates for each other that don't need tons of escaping. >> >> On another note, will the old format ever be deprecated? Is there a date? > > I doubt it. *If* the old format were ever to be deprecated (and that's a very big if), Python 4k would be the earliest it could happen. More likely the old format will just hang around indefinitely, though. 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
