Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > <pointede...@web.de> wrote: >> Mark Lawrence wrote: >>> On 21/12/2015 07:51, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >>>> Chris Angelico wrote: >>>>> But it's been clearly stated that .format is not going to do away with >>>>> percent formatting, and all language of "new-style formatting" has >>>>> been removed so as not to cause confusion. >>>> Wishful thinking, twice. >>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/969817 >> What is this supposed to be evidence of? > > Proof that percent formatting isn't planned for deprecation, much less > removal.
Then it would have failed to accomplish that. > There is strong support for it in certain quarters of python-dev. […] There *was*. The referred thread is from 2012-02. It is 2015-12. -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list