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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Ignore error with non-zero exit status
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:51:09 +0100
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Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>>> Percent formatting isn't going away. There's no need to tell people to
>>> abandon it in favour of .format(), unless they actually need a feature
>>> of .format().
>>
>> ,-<https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>
>> |
>> | […]
>> | This method of string formatting is the new standard in Python 3, and
>> | should be preferred to the % formatting described in <String Formatting
>> | Operations> in new code.
> 
> That text doesn't exist in the 3.x documentation:
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format

Of course it does not.  That would be stupid.

> There's a somewhat weaker recommendation here:
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting

AISB.

> But it's been clearly stated that .format is not going to do away with
> percent formatting, and all language of "new-style formatting" has been
> removed so as not to cause confusion.

Wishful thinking, twice.
 
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