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Subject: Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
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>>>> Please stop perpetuating this myth, see
>>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116789.html
>>>> and http://bugs.python.org/issue14123
>>>>
>>> What myth?
>>
>> The myth that % string formatting is deprecated. It is not deprecated.
> Skip didn't say that it was deprecated.

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...

Skip