PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

[Mark Lawrence]

On 21/05/2013 20:13, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> Thank you, but let me rephrase it. I'm already using str.format() but I'd like to use '%' (BINARY_MODULO) operator instead.
>
> That's unlikely to change.  If not deprecated already string
> interpolation using the modulo operator has lost favor to the string
> object's format method.
>

Please stop perpetuating this myth, see 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116789.html 
and http://bugs.python.org/issue14123

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Mark Lawrence