[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Sep 1 19:56:58 CEST 2005

On 9/1/05, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote:

> Do we really need writef()? It seems to be not much better than its %- > formatting > equivalent.

Actually, formatting needs to become a function. The overloading of the arithmetic mod operator has proven to be unfortunate (if only because of precedence issues).

For me, it's not so much the precedence, but the fact that "%s" % x doesn't work as expected if x is a tuple; you'd have to write "%s" % (x,) which is tedious.

Also, the format coding scheme itself needs to be revisited. There is no shortage of people who have taken issue with the trailing s in %(myvar)s.

Maybe the syntax used in the string.Template class is the way to go?

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