On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:42:31 AM UTC-6, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Originally I had used percent-formatting > But isn't it deprecated in Python 3.X ?
I don't know the current state of "percent formats" future, however, i can tell you that it should be deprecated ASAP! Simpleminded Sam blubbered: """ But rick, how will we format strings that contain curly braces without the "percent format" option? We can't live without "percent formatting", we are but simple minded folks! *sky-falling* """ Easy Sam. You allow the user to pass "opener" and "closer" chars to the format function. >>> "Elvis {has} <0> the {{{ building".format('left', opener='<', closer='>') 'Elvis {has} left the {{{ building' For strings that contain all braces you could even create something unique: >>> "(Elvis) {has} {S}0{E} the <building>".format('left', opener='{S}', >>> closer='{E}') '(Elvis) {has} left the <building>' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list