On Tue, 10 May 2016 07:21 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn >> <pointede...@web.de> wrote: >>> With the “%” string operator (deprecated), str.format(), and >>> str.Template, you can use other values in string values even without >>> concatenation. >> >> Not deprecated. Don't spread FUD. > > If only you cared to read what I referred to: > > ,-<https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-formatting>
That is excellent advice Thomas! If only you had followed it yourself, instead of blindly and mechanically copying and pasting. If you had bothered to actually read it, you would have seen that *nowhere* does it say that the % string operator is deprecated. Deprecation has a specific meaning involving a formal process of removing a feature from the language. It doesn't merely mean "this old feature has quirks and we think you should use this new feature instead". Some of the core developers like `format` better and think that people should use it in preference to the % string operator. That much is true. But that is far from being deprecated. > Note the key words: “old”, “quirks”, “errors”. Irrelevant to the question of deprecation. Floats are old (they go back to the first release of Python), they have many quirks (x + y - x is not necessarily equal to y), and people make many errors with floats. Does this mean they are deprecated? Of course not. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list