On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Westley Martínez <aniko...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm one of the weirdos who is absolutely hostile to the format method > and continues to use % formatting. I'm pretty sure it is because of my > C background (actually I learned Python before C, and thus learned % > formatting in Python).
I quite like printf-style formatting. It's well known, well defined, and compact. When I write C++ programs, I often still use printf/sprintf extensively - it just "feels nicer" than iostream (and the main downside of printf, the lack of argument checking, is largely solved in recent gcc). So when I work with Python, it makes sense to use the same thing there. Dense syntax results in easy-to-read format strings, imho. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
