[Python-Dev] Status regarding Old vs. Advanced String Formating (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Feb 24 22:37:40 CET 2012

I was of the thought that Old String Formatting |"%s" % foo| was to be phased out by Advanced String Formatting |"{}.format(foo)|.

This is actually not the case, and never was. Some people would indeed like to see that happen, and others are strongly opposed.

As a consequence, both APIs for formatting will coexist for a long time to come (ten years at least); no deprecation is planned.

Regards, Martin

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