On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 23:39, "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is a burden for some people to learn and remember the exact details >> of both systems and exactly how they differ. Having both in the stdlib >> hurts readability for such people. I would prefer that the stdlib only >> used {} formatting or if not that, that it only used the simple, >> hard-to-forget forms of % formatting (%s, %d, %f, without elaboration). > > If that issue was getting serious, I would prefer if the .format method > was deprecated, and only % formatting was kept.
Why is that? Isn't .format regarded superior? Or is this just a matter of taste? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
