On 9/1/05, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
