On 22 May 2013 23:31, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuc...@outlook.com> wrote: > > I still don't understand why % benefits from literals optimization > ("'%d'%12345") while '{:d}'.format(12345) doesn't.
There's no reason why that optimisation can't happen in principle. However no one has written a patch for it. Why don't you look into what it would take to make it happen? Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list