On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Steven Bethard <steven.bethard <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> But it's not much of a transition plan. Or are you suggesting: > > The question is why we want a transition plan that will bother everyone with > no > tangible benefits for the user.
I think Guido expressed my feelings pretty well: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > In the long run, say Python 4, I think we don't need both, and we > should get rid of one. My preference is still getting rid of > %-formatting, due to the problems with it that prompted the design of > {}-formatting (no need to reiterate the list here). I agree with this 100% but I can't see it working unless we have some sort of transition plan. Just saying "ok, switch your format strings from % to {}" didn't work in Python 3.0 for various good reasons, and I can't imagine it will work in Python 4.0 unless we have a transition plan. Steve -- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that? --- The Hiphopopotamus _______________________________________________ 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