excord80 wrote:
On Dec 19, 11:01 am, walterbyrd <walterb...@iname.com> wrote:To me, it seems that this: print "%s=%d" % ('this',99) Is much easier, ... This (if it's right) is much longer, ... print( "{0}={1}".format('this',99))Yeah, I like the old way better too. It's got this nice elegant simplicity to it (using the percent sign for not only the things inside the string, but also to separate it from the tuple that follows). Also, I like having only *one* special symbol (`%') to worry about in my strings instead of two (`{' and `}').
Ah, but for internationalization, you can change the format string to take args in a different order if, for example, French messages want modifiers on one side and English on the other. The code can stay the same, while only the text used to do the formatting must change. --Scott David Daniels scott.dani...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
