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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jun 6 05:37:50 CEST 2008


Nick Coghlan wrote:

%r is about the worst case for the new syntax relative to the old - two characters become 5. It's worth looking at what those extra characters buy us though:

However, those benefits are only realised some of the time, and it's only in rare cases that they're all realised at once. The cost-benefit analysis needs to take the entropy into account somehow.

-- Greg



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