Pre-PEP: Refusing to guess in string formatting operations

[Cherniavsky Biniamin]

In article <mailman.1047489020.2461.python-list at python.org>, Jp Calderone wrote:
>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.
> 
Hehe, I still have that half of the PEP on my HD, which I wrote before
installing 2.3 just to make sure I won't make a fool of myself :-).

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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>