[Python-Dev] Tool for converting %-formatting to .format()ing ?

[Bill Janssen]

> On 2008-05-09 15:29, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> >     mal> Is there a tool available that can convert 2.x code automagically
> >     mal> to the .format() method syntax ?
> > 
> >     mal> Just did a quick grep of our code base and it has some 2000 lines
> >     mal> of code that would need to be changed.
> > 
> > I suggested a 2to3 fixer for this but was shot down.
> 
> Well, ideally such a tool should address 2to2 :-)

The curse of back-porting...  I, too, would find such a tool helpful;
I've got a thousand lines of %-formatting use just in UpLib alone.

Bill