Ok. Thanks! bugs.python.org/issue18031
---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 23:26:58 -0400 > From: n...@nedbatchelder.com > To: carlosnepomuc...@outlook.com > CC: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Myth Busters: % "this old style of formatting will eventually be > removed from the language" > > On 5/21/2013 10:26 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote: >> I was looking for something else and just found what I think is the place >> where I was first exposed to the myth[1]: >> >> "Since str.format() is quite new, a lot of Python code still uses the % >> operator. However, because this old style of formatting will eventually be >> removed from the language, str.format() should generally be used." >> >> Is this tutorial outdated or this still an issue? >> >> [1] http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/inputoutput.html#old-string-formatting > > That tutorial is out of date. %-formatting isn't being removed. > > --Ned. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
