On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 1:29 AM, Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> wrote: > The article has a section called: > > "Too Many Formatting Options" > > He's right! The % formatting was kept to help port old code, the new > .format() which is far more versatile is a bit verbose, so finally they've > settled on f-strings. So, you do need to know that all three exist (e.g., for > maintaining code), but you can easily choose the style that you prefer and > just use that.
Largely tangential, but don't you mean "all four"? PEP-292 template strings are also still around, though I don't recall that I've ever seen them used in the wild. When I read that Python 3.6 would include f-strings, I turned to the coworker sitting next to me and said, "Oh my god, Python is adding yet another new syntax for string formatting." It's getting to be a joke. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
