> It is a burden for some people to learn and remember the exact details
> of both systems and exactly how they differ. Having both in the stdlib
> hurts readability for such people. I would prefer that the stdlib only
> used {} formatting or if not that, that it only used the simple,
> hard-to-forget forms of % formatting (%s, %d, %f, without elaboration).If that issue was getting serious, I would prefer if the .format method was deprecated, and only % formatting was kept. I doubt this is as much of an issue as you think, though. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
