On Dec 20, 6:05 pm, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article > <b58f588a-e8db-41df-a488-f7df62d56...@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, > > walterbyrd <walterb...@iname.com> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 10:25 am, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Personally the new string formatter is sorely needed in Python. > > > Really? You know, it's funny, but when I read problems that people > > have with python, I don't remember seeing that. Loads of people > > complain about the white space issue. Some people complain about the > > speed. Lots of complaints about certain quirky behavior, but I have > > not come across any complaints about the string formatting. > > > In fact, from what I have seen, many of the "problems" being "fixed" > > seem to be non-problems. > > > I dunno, maybe it's just me. > > I had an interesting experience with this recently. I was giving a > co-worker quick python into. He's an experienced programer in various > languages, but this was his first exposure to python. > > He got really hung up on the % syntax. By (bad) luck, he was trying to > print a tuple (let's call it "t"), did > > format % t > > and was surprised at the result. It set him off on a "but that's stupid, > blah, blah, blah" rant. I haven't absorbed the new syntax well enough to > figure out if people will get hung up by this with the new syntax.
It is stupid, more reason to fix the current problem instead creating a whole new one. One more big complaint "THE BACKSLASH PLAGUE". ever tried regexp?, or file paths?. All because that little backslash char is a line continuation character, maybe we should fix that. Would your life end if '\' was not a continuation char? Mine would not because i don't write my code to need it. Python has real warts that need fixing, and thats really hard for me to say, because i am such a fanboy of Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list