[Python-Dev] converting the stdlib to str.format

[Antoine Pitrou]

Michael Foord <fuzzyman <at> voidspace.org.uk> writes:
> Simple string formatting with %s and a single object or a tuple meets 
>  >90% of my string formatting needs.

Not to mention that e.g. "%r" % s is much simpler than "{0!r}".format(s)
(if I got the format spec right).

cheers

Antoine.