.format vs. %

[Rick Johnson]

On Jan 2, 4:00 pm, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> %-style formatting isn't going away.

You may want to freshen up on the definition of "deprecation". If it
was NOT going away, why the need to deprecate it? hmm? It would be
more beneficial if you DO NOT encourage continued usage of this "end-
of-life" feature.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation