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Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

Date 2013-05-21 22:38 -0500
From Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com>
Subject Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
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On 2013.05.21 21:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2013 14:53:54 -0500, Andrew Berg wrote:
> 
>> On 2013.05.21 14:26, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> 
>>> 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.

>> but no one said % formatting was going away soon.
> 
> True, but only for the definition "no one = all the people who insist 
> that % is deprecated, or soon to be deprecated".
Perhaps I missed something, but who is insisting this?

> What happens in Python 4000 is irrelevant. If somebody is trying to 
> "future proof" their code for a version that *may never exist*, and if it 
> does exist is likely to be six or eight years away from even starting the 
> design phase, they are wasting their time. It is hard enough to track a 
> moving target, it is impossible to track a target that isn't even a gleam 
> in GvR's eye yet.
I think you misunderstand. I'm not suggesting that format() be used simply because % formatting could be deprecated at some unknown time
years from now; I was clarifying the status of % formatting.
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Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-21 14:53 -0500
  Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-22 02:59 +0000
    Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-21 22:38 -0500
    Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-22 05:45 -0500
      Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-22 14:58 +0000
        Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-22 14:30 -0400
          Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2013-05-22 13:26 -0700
            RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-23 01:31 +0300
              Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2013-05-23 06:44 -0700
                RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-23 18:26 +0300
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-23 14:42 -0400
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator nn <pruebauno@latinmail.com> - 2013-05-24 06:50 -0700
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-23 16:19 -0400
                RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-24 01:20 +0300
                Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2013-05-23 21:17 -0400
                RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-24 04:41 +0300
            Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-05-23 01:30 +0100
            RE: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-23 03:44 +0300

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