[Python-3000] String formating operations in python 3k (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Apr 4 21:05:00 CEST 2006

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 13:27 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:

If I were designing a formatting system from scratch, I think I'd separate the issue of formatting numbers into strings from the issue of inserting strings into other strings.

This really is a key observation. PEP 292 tried to make inserting strings into other strings really simple to grok, and I think it does that, while still providing a useful level of flexibility for advanced users. I really would hate to mingle that simple functionality with all the complexity of number formatting and the like.

-Barry

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