PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

[Carlos Nepomuceno]

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> Subject: Re: PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 20:26:41 +0100
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> 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.
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>> 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.
>>

I used to think str.__mod__() was going to be deprecated until Steven told me it was a myth! Think I got that idea from the own Python docs, but it's gone by now. Nevermind...

The fact is I have no need for str.format(). It's slow and awkward. str.format() looks like COBOL/Java idiom to me. I love Python! '%' is much more cool!!!

> 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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