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

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Wed Apr 5 05:12:57 CEST 2006

+1 for {} over the ///{} dichotomy -- it's easier to explain, as well as more readable.

Perhaps I'm just allergic to bash/perl/java/ruby syntax, but the more I follow this discussion, the more I like the current string formatting system :-).

It seems to me that the core of the issue is the current insistence, with %(NAME)FORMAT, on a trailing format type which is frequently forgotten. Why not just remove that insistence, and use %(foo) in py3k? Code will break, sure, but we're going to expect that. If you really need to control the presentation, put that information inside the parens, as in %(foo:.3f). But let it default to "s".

There are other issues, such as the need to construct a dictionary, for which reasonable approaches have been offered over the last week.

Bill

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