[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:57:35 -0700
Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 03/27/2014 11:41 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Much better, but I'm still not happy with including %s at all. Otherwise it's accept-worthy. (How's that for pressure. :-)
> 
> FWIW, I feel the same, but the need for compatible 2/3 code bases is real.
> 
> Hey, how's this?  We'll let %s in, but immediately deprecate it.  ;)  Of course, we won't remove it until Python IV.

I vote for an environment variable-controlled feature activation
(or with a registry key under Windows) ;)

Regards

Antoine.