[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #14123: Explicitly mention that old style % string formatting has caveats (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 23:38:20 CET 2012
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Ah, thanks, I knew there was another term that had a new-style counterpart: percent formatting vs brace formatting.
-- Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :) On Feb 27, 2012 7:53 AM, "Georg Brandl" <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
On 02/26/2012 10:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Eli Bendersky<eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
It would be nice to call it something else than "printf-style formatting". While it is certainly modelled on printf(), knowledge of C or printf is not required to understand %-style formatting, nor even to appreciate it.
+1. The section is already titled "old string formatting operations" so if this name is acceptable it should be reused. If it's not, it should then be consistently changed everywhere. I deliberately chose printf-style as being value neutral (whereas old-style vs new-style carries a heavier recommendation that you should be using the new one). Sure you don't need to know printf to understand it, but it needs some kind of name, and "printf-style" acknowledges its roots. Another value-neutral term is "mod-style", which describes how it is invoked (and I believe we do use that in a few places already). I've seen "percent-formatting", which is neutral, accurate and doesn't require any previous knowledge. (The new one could be "format-formatting" then, which is a tad awkward. :) Georg _______** Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev at python.org http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-dev<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev> Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ ncoghlan%40gmail.com<http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120227/a2958869/attachment.html>
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