[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
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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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