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| Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:46:13 -0500 |
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On 06/20/2011 05:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > “This method of string formatting is the new standard in > Python 3.0, and should be preferred to the % formatting > described in String Formatting Operations in new code.” > > <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.format> Is there a good link to a thread-archive on when/why/how .format(...) became "preferred to the % formatting"? I haven't seen any great wins of the new formatting over the classic style. Is there some great feature of new-style formatting that I've missed out on that obviates bajillions of lines of 2.x code? -tkc
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Re: What is this syntax ? Claudiu Popa <cpopa@bitdefender.com> - 2011-06-20 10:18 +0300
Re: What is this syntax ? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-21 08:19 +1000
Re: new string-formatting preferred? (was "What is this syntax ?") Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-06-20 19:46 -0500
Re: new string-formatting preferred? (was "What is this syntax ?") Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-20 22:17 -0400
Re: new string-formatting preferred? (was "What is this syntax ?") Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-06-21 06:33 -0500
Re: new string-formatting preferred? (was "What is this syntax ?") Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-21 18:19 -0400
Re: new string-formatting preferred? (was "What is this syntax ?") Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-06-21 18:02 -0500
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