R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
This was proposed on python-ideas, discussed, approved, and implemented
for 2.7 and 3.1.
Note that although this wasn't discussed, the internationalization issue
is answered by the fact that when internationalizing, you are rewriting
the
Alexander Belopolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Omitting the ordinals from {} format units will present a problem with
internationalization because the arguments may need to be rendered in
different order in different languages. This is a frequent problem with
the % formats and it is
New submission from Bruce Frederiksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Being forced to number the arguments when using positional arguments in
a format string is difficult to maintain. Adding an argument to the
format string either requires renumbering all subsequent arguments, or
using an out of sequence
