Pre-PEP: Refusing to guess in string formatting operations

[Jp Calderone]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:58:40PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> writes:
> 
> >   In retrospect, I would rather have the method named __mod__.  It is the
> > only thing that -really- makes sense, and it clears up two related warts:
> > using the % operator on strings calls no function reachable from Python, and
> > subclasses of str cannot override the % behavior.
> 
> This is fixed in 2.3, I'm fairly sure.

  Well, that's a pleasant surprise.  I guess a PEP wasn't needed after all.

  Thanks for the pointer,

  Jp

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