On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > Some don't realize that one very powerful use for the .format style of > working is that it makes localization much more straightforward. With > the curly brace approach, one can translate the format string into > another language, and if the parameters have to be substituted in > another order, it's all in one place.
It only matters with positional placeholders, though. You can achieve the same thing using named placeholders, which both major formatting styles support. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list