On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <pointede...@web.de> wrote: > Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> On 21/12/2015 07:51, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >>> Chris Angelico wrote: >>>> But it's been clearly stated that .format is not going to do away with >>>> percent formatting, and all language of "new-style formatting" has been >>>> removed so as not to cause confusion. >>> >>> Wishful thinking, twice. >> >> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/969817 > > What is this supposed to be evidence of?
Proof that percent formatting isn't planned for deprecation, much less removal. There is strong support for it in certain quarters of python-dev. It's a fully supported language feature, not an old and outmoded feature that is kept solely for backward compatibility (as "old-style classes" are in Python 2.7 - you can still use them, but as of Python 3, only "new-style classes" exist). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
