On Wed, 22 May 2013 05:45:12 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I didn't mean to create a tempest in a teapot. I was away from > comp.lang.python, python-bugs, and python-dev for a few years. In > particular, I didn't ever see the aforementioned thread from Feb 2012. > Had I known of that thread I would have worded the sentence which > shall not be repeated differently. > > My apologies...
No problem, it's not about you specifically, it's just that some of us fans of % formatting can be a tad sensitive about it, especially since the idea that it has been deprecated (or soon will be deprecated, or one day will be deprecated, and therefore code using it is bad) is relatively widespread on the Internet. Glad to have you back here! -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
