On Jan 20, 2:38 am, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > But of more interest: you claim PEP 4 is not relevant, > and that old string formatting is NOT deprecated. > I would like assurance that it is not deprecated.
It is not deprecated YET; see this: http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#changes-already-present-in-python-2-6 PEP 3101: Advanced String Formatting. Note: the 2.6 description mentions the format() method for both 8-bit and Unicode strings. In 3.0, only the str type (text strings with Unicode support) supports this method; the bytes type does not. The plan is to eventually make this the only API for string formatting, and to start deprecating the % operator in Python 3.1. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
