On Oct 1, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Steven Bethard wrote:
I see how this could allow a user to supply a {}-format string to an
API that accepts only %-format strings. But I still don't see the
transition strategy for the API itself. That is, how does the %-format
API use this to eventually switch to {}-format strings? Could someone
please lay it out for me, step by step, showing what happens in each
version?
Here's what I said in my first message, suggesting this change.
Copy&pasted below:
I wrote:
1) introduce the above feature, and recommend in docs that people
only ever use new-style format strings, wrapping the string in
newstyle_formatstr() when necessary for passing to an API which uses
% internally.
2) A long time later...deprecate str.__mod__; don't deprecate
newstyle_formatstr.__mod__.
3) A while after that (maybe), remove str.__mod__ and replace all
calls in Python to % (used as a formatting operator) with .format()
so that the default is to use newstyle format strings for all APIs
from then on.
So do (1) in 3.2. Then do (2) in 3.4, and (3) in 3.6. I skipped two
versions each time because of how widely this API is used, and the
likely pain that doing the transition quickly would cause. But I guess
you *could* do it in one version each step.
James
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