On 12/21/2015 9:05 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn 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.
Nothing has changed since except for
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/
already added to 3.6.
If the 2.7 doc still implies that % -formatting is deprecated, it should
changed as in the 3.x docs.
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