thanks for all of the responses, has been really helpful On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > > > > > Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than > > > the % operator? % is deprecated now. > > > > It most certainly is not. > > > > There are no plans to deprecate the string % operator any time in the > > foreseeable future. It may, hypothetically, wither away from lack of use > > OK I am clearly wrong with the statement I made. I had assumed the > statement (*) that it would be deprecated in 3.1 was carried through, I > had not actually checked the reality in the 3.1 and 3.2 differences > documents. My apologies for misdirection, thanks for pulling me up on > this. > > > (*) There is no statement of when deprecation would happen in PEP 3101 > itself http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/ but there is an explicit > statement in > > http://docs.python.org/release/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#pep-3101-a-new-approach-to-string-formattingwhich > clearly didn't happen even though it led to a lot of people thinking > it would. > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > >
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