On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:55:01 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote: > C string formatting is short and a flexible enough, but it's out of > place in a language as high level as Python3. The new syntax allows more > flexibility, and it's better for most people that don't know C already, > like newbies, etc.
I'm somebody who frequently argues that we shouldn't assume that everybody knows C. But on the other hand, we shouldn't assume that newbies don't know C either! % formatting is so very common that even a duffer like me who never learned C came to Python already knowing the basics of % formatting. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
