On 2013.05.21 21:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2013 14:53:54 -0500, Andrew Berg wrote: > >> On 2013.05.21 14:26, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >>> Please stop perpetuating this myth, see >>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116789.html >>> and http://bugs.python.org/issue14123 >>> >> What myth? > > The myth that % string formatting is deprecated. It is not deprecated. Skip didn't say that it was deprecated.
>> but no one said % formatting was going away soon. > > True, but only for the definition "no one = all the people who insist > that % is deprecated, or soon to be deprecated". Perhaps I missed something, but who is insisting this? > What happens in Python 4000 is irrelevant. If somebody is trying to > "future proof" their code for a version that *may never exist*, and if it > does exist is likely to be six or eight years away from even starting the > design phase, they are wasting their time. It is hard enough to track a > moving target, it is impossible to track a target that isn't even a gleam > in GvR's eye yet. I think you misunderstand. I'm not suggesting that format() be used simply because % formatting could be deprecated at some unknown time years from now; I was clarifying the status of % formatting. -- CPython 3.3.2 | Windows NT 6.2.9200 / FreeBSD 9.1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
