On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:10:59 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote about % formatting in Python 3:
> It's not going to be removed for many years - if ever. The % string > formatting system is not deprecated in 3.0. For that very reason it must > stay until 3.2. We don't have plans to deprecate it in 3.1 so it will > stay at least until Python 3.3 which is to be released about 2014. I am very glad to hear that. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list