Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2012-01-03, Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> wrote:
Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote:
To add my opinion on it, I find format() much more readable and easier
to understand (with the exception of the {} {} {} {} syntax), and would
love to see %-style formatting phased out.
For me the %-style is much more readable. Also, it is significantly
faster:
$ ./python -m timeit -n 1000000 '"%s" % 7.928137192'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0164 usec per loop
I have done a little more investigating, and the above is
arguably not fair. Python is interpolating that string at compile
time, as far as I can tell. Pretty cool, and not possible with
.format, but it's just regurgitating a string literal over and
over, which isn't of much interest.
% is faster, but not by an order of magnitude.
On my machine:
C:\WINDOWS>python -m timeit -n 1000000 -s "n=7.92" "'%s' % n"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.965 usec per loop
C:\WINDOWS>python -m timeit -n 1000000 -s "n=7.92" "'{}'.format(n)"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.17 usec per loop
Good information. Thanks.
~Ethan~
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