On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <pointede...@web.de> wrote: > 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.
Then show some evidence that python-dev has changed in viewpoint. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list