>>> In py3k string%dictionary is going away. >> Why do you say that? It's not going away in Python 3.0. > > I also got the impression that it was going away. PEP 3101's abstract > says: > > This PEP proposes a new system for built-in string formatting > operations, intended as a replacement [sic] for the existing '%' > string formatting operator. > > Under "Backward compatibility" it says that both systems can coexist > "until it comes time to deprecate the older system".
The PEP may say that it's going away, but it doesn't say that it goes away in 3.0 - and indeed, it won't. At some point in the future, somebody will likely propose that the PEP will be executed. At that time, huge flame wars will start. I expect that they settle in changing the PEP to explain that the old mechanism gets removed in Python 4, to be release in 2018 :-) Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
