On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 at 12:36, Jerry Chen wrote:
For better or for worse, I have created a patch against the py3k trunk
which introduces a binary operator '@' as an alternative syntax for
the new string formatting system introduced by PEP 3101 ("Advanced
String Formatting"). [1]
It seems to me that this topic is more appropriate for python-ideas.
That said, I'm -1 on it. The 'keywords as last item of tuple' reeks
of code-smell to my nose, and I don't think you've addressed all of
the reasons for why a method was chosen over an operator. Python has a
tradition of having "one obvious way" to do something, so introducing an
"alternative" syntax that you admit is sub-optimal does not seem to me
to have enough benefit to justify breaking that design guideline.
Congratulations on your first foray into the core, though :)
--David
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