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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Jun 6 13:12:27 CEST 2008

Greg Ewing schrieb:

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.

Exactly. If % formatting is removed in 3k, code breaks, so we keep it. Changing it now so that code breaks anyway is not productive :)

Georg

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