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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jun 6 05:32:35 CEST 2008


Paul Moore wrote:

Because the second breaks if value is a tuple:

However, changing it now is going to break a huge amount of existing code that uses %-formatting, and in ways that 2to3 can't reliably fix.

Keeping %-formatting but breaking a large proportion of its uses doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

-- Greg



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