New Python 3.0 string formatting - really necessary?

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~Michael,
What’s next down this road of self destruction? Hey guys, forget about
about empty parenthesis on a function/method call,  we should not have
to waste are time typing them… Wait forget about them all together and
we will just write Ruby code…

Def function arg arg arg arg arg arg

“Yea, that looks good“.insert(sarcasm)
Things like forcing empty tuple on function/method calls are what make
python so great. Python dumped the C bracket plague,  but enforces
parenthesis even for a no argument function. But hell, why shouldn’t
we have 50 ways to the same thing in Python like Ruby.

PS. Don’t discredit Walter just because he is not on the dev team,
that don’t mean squat!


~Bearophile,
Thanks for your civil approach to this conversation but I must
disagree with you on the new string formatting syntax. You said the
new syntax is suppost to be easier on the n00b , I say it pollutes a
students mind. What is wrong with similarities to C formatting,  I
find nothing complicated about it.

%s (means put a string here)
%d (means put a integer here)
%f (means put a float here)

It does not get any simpler than that, and this will just ease the
transition to C programming for this student. Lets not forget how
important C is!

I always likened Python to my cool uncle who would let me get away
with more than my parents-C- but would enforce the important rules.
Like Python’s forcing of empty tuple in function calls, that is a good
idea. This allows you to clearly see arguments in source code. I like
in Python there is only one, or a very minimal number of ways to do
something(but usually only one is the best). Ruby is littered with
different ways to do the same thing. I think this will be Ruby’s
undoing…. And Pythons if we follow down this road.

And lets not forget Python forcing of indention, that is Pythons
greatest strength!