[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #14123: Explicitly mention that old style % string formatting has caveats

[Nick Coghlan]

Ah, thanks, I knew there was another term that had a new-style counterpart:
percent formatting vs brace formatting.

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Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :)
On Feb 27, 2012 7:53 AM, "Georg Brandl" <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

> On 02/26/2012 10:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Eli Bendersky<eliben at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   It would be nice to call it something else than "printf-style
>>>>  formatting". While it is certainly modelled on printf(), knowledge of C
>>>>  or printf is not required to understand %-style formatting, nor even to
>>>>  appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  +1. The section is already titled "old string formatting operations" so
>>> if
>>>  this name is acceptable it should be reused. If it's not, it should
>>> then be
>>>  consistently changed everywhere.
>>>
>>
>> I deliberately chose printf-style as being value neutral (whereas
>> old-style vs new-style carries a heavier recommendation that you
>> should be using the new one). Sure you don't need to know printf to
>> understand it, but it needs *some* kind of name, and "printf-style"
>> acknowledges its roots. Another value-neutral term is "mod-style",
>> which describes how it is invoked (and I believe we do use that in a
>> few places already).
>>
>
> I've seen "percent-formatting", which is neutral, accurate and doesn't
> require any previous knowledge.  (The new one could be "format-formatting"
> then, which is a tad awkward. :)
>
> Georg
>
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