Carsten Haese wrote: > While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, calling the "?" a > formatter only blurs the already blurred distinction between string > formatting and parameter passing. The "?" is a parameter placeholder.
Yeah, you're right. I was actually raising an eyebrow as I typed "formatter", because I wasn't sure what to call it. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list