In article <b58f588a-e8db-41df-a488-f7df62d56...@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, walterbyrd <walterb...@iname.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 10:25 am, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Personally the new string formatter is sorely needed in Python. > > Really? You know, it's funny, but when I read problems that people > have with python, I don't remember seeing that. Loads of people > complain about the white space issue. Some people complain about the > speed. Lots of complaints about certain quirky behavior, but I have > not come across any complaints about the string formatting. > > In fact, from what I have seen, many of the "problems" being "fixed" > seem to be non-problems. > > I dunno, maybe it's just me. I had an interesting experience with this recently. I was giving a co-worker quick python into. He's an experienced programer in various languages, but this was his first exposure to python. He got really hung up on the % syntax. By (bad) luck, he was trying to print a tuple (let's call it "t"), did format % t and was surprised at the result. It set him off on a "but that's stupid, blah, blah, blah" rant. I haven't absorbed the new syntax well enough to figure out if people will get hung up by this with the new syntax.
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