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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jun 5 04:30:33 CEST 2008


On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:48:07 am Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote: > - remove support for passing a single value to a format string > without wrapping it in an iterable first

But won't that clobber a large number of the simple use cases that you want to keep %-formatting for?

Yes, I don't particularly see the advantage of writing:

"spam %s spam" % (value,)

over

"spam %s spam" % value

Why require the first version?

-- Steven



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