New Python 3.0 string formatting - really necessary?

[James Mills]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:37 AM, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 10:11 am, r <rt8... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Most of the complaints i hear are the redundant use of self.
>> Which I lamented about but have become accustom(brainwashed) to it. I
>> would remove this if it where up to me.
>
> It's a shame Python wasn't released under some kind of license, one
> that allowed its source to be, say, "opened" and modified. Otherwise
> you would just implement this yourself and submit patches, right?

+1 :)