On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> wrote: > For me the %-style is much more readable.
It's also very similar to C's printf, which means it's similar to everything else that's similar to printf. That makes it instantly grokkable to many many people, which is a Good Thing. It's like using the + operator for string concatenation - there's no requirement to do so, and not all languages do (REXX, PHP, and SQL come to mind); but supporting the "obvious thing" gives a huge slab of potential Python users the chance to understand and write code with one less trip to the documentation. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
