On 06/06/2008, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 :)
Just to clarify, I'm not advocating change here. My comment (above) about code breaking was in reference to an issue with a chunk of user-level code which got clipped from the quote, and is completely unrelated to any diiscussion of changing Python. Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
