On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:42:31 AM UTC-6, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Originally I had used percent-formatting >> But isn't it deprecated in Python 3.X ? > > I don't know the current state of "percent formats" future, however, i can > tell you that it should be deprecated ASAP!
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Nope please see > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116790.html And there, folks, you have it. The known troll demands its removal, a core dev says that it's staying. Percent formatting is a viable parallel to .format(), with some handy differences - such as the distinction of significant characters, as proven here. Both are going to stay, and I'm glad of it! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
