On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > It would be nice to call it something else than "printf-style > formatting". While it is certainly modelled on printf(), knowledge of C > or printf is not required to understand %-style formatting, nor even to > appreciate it.
-1. Calling it "printf-style" ties it in with its origins just as the term "regex" does for the 're' module. There are printf-derived features in quite a few high level languages; they may differ somewhat (Pike's sprintf() can do columnar displays; PHP's vsprintf takes an array, not some weird and mythical varargs token), but in their basics they will be similar. The name is worth keeping. Chris Angelico _______________________________________________ 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
