> "one obvious way" != "only one way" Which way is the obvious way? Why is it obvious?
For me, sprintf-formatting is "obviously" easier to use (less typing) unless you're pulling values from a dictionary or object, or already have all the variables stored in a dict you can pass in with **d. -- Devin On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Ian Kelly wrote: >> >> I'm not sure it's true that "there are no plans to do so in the >> foreseeable future." According to the release notes from Python 3.0, >> % formatting was supposed to be deprecated in Python 3.1. > > > Eric Smith wrote (from a thread on pydev in 02-2011): >> The last thread on this I have a reference to was in September 2009. I >> think was basically the outcome: >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-September/092399.html >> >> So there will be no deprecation, just a gradual shift to PEP 3101 >> formatting. > > > Ian Kelly wrote: >> >> Maybe there was a discussion on py-dev >> where it was decided that % formatting would not be deprecated after >> all (in which case the misleading "obsolete" note really ought to be >> removed from the documentation). > > > Agreed that this is a documentation bug. > > > Ian Kelly wrote: >> >> The reason for deprecating it is because Python currently has no fewer >> than three mechanisms for string formatting (not even including >> ordinary string concatenation), which according to the Zen of Python >> is two too many. > > > "one obvious way" != "only one way" > > ~Ethan~ > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
