[Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Jun 4 13:36:48 CEST 2008

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Please don't - not before % is actually deprecated (which I hope won't happen until Python 4, with removal of % in Python 5, in the year when I retire, i.e. 2037). Now this is news to me -- was there a discussion that changed the lifetime expectancy of str.mod? I'd always supposed it being deprecated at some point in 3.x. The PEP doesn't specify anything, and I don't recall any discussion, either - the specific timing suggested above is merely my own hopes. While str.format has an awful lot of points in its favour (no tuple/dict special casing, much cleaner handling of named arguments, access to format options for non-builtin types), there are some debugging cases where I suspect the basic version of % formatting will prove to be more convenient. At this point in time, my personal preference would be that later in the 3.x series certain aspects of % formatting will be deprecated (acceptance of non-tuples in favour of the format() builtin, acceptance of dicts in favour of str.format), but that simple % formatting of a tuple of values will still be permitted.

+1

Simple string formatting with %s and a single object or a tuple meets

90% of my string formatting needs.

Michael Foord

Cheers, Nick.

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