On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I wondered if the idea of deprecating printf style formatting might also > come up again. It was discussed in some depth here > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116789.html
I don't see any reason for it to go. Anyone who wants to use .format() is welcome to; anyone who likes %s is welcome to use that. They have sufficiently distinct styles that they don't really come into conflict. Now, if someone wants to deprecate the "str modulo anything" operator in favour of an explicit sprintf() function (optionally with printf() that sends straight through to print()), that I might get behind - but I don't see any reason to lose the printf-style formatting codes. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
