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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 14:50:48 CEST 2008


2008/6/4 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

Michael Foord <fuzzyman voidspace.org.uk> writes:

Simple string formatting with %s and a single object or a tuple meets >90% of my string formatting needs. Not to mention that e.g. "%r" % s is much simpler than "{0!r}".format(s) (if I got the format spec right).

repr(s) is simpler still, and doesn't break if s is a tuple :-)

Paul.



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