PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator

[Andrew Berg]

On 2013.05.21 21:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2013 14:53:54 -0500, Andrew Berg wrote:
> 
>> On 2013.05.21 14:26, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> 
>>> Please stop perpetuating this myth, see
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116789.html
>>> and http://bugs.python.org/issue14123
>>> 
>> What myth? 
> 
> The myth that % string formatting is deprecated. It is not deprecated.
Skip didn't say that it was deprecated.

>> but no one said % formatting was going away soon.
> 
> True, but only for the definition "no one = all the people who insist 
> that % is deprecated, or soon to be deprecated".
Perhaps I missed something, but who is insisting this?

> What happens in Python 4000 is irrelevant. If somebody is trying to 
> "future proof" their code for a version that *may never exist*, and if it 
> does exist is likely to be six or eight years away from even starting the 
> design phase, they are wasting their time. It is hard enough to track a 
> moving target, it is impossible to track a target that isn't even a gleam 
> in GvR's eye yet.
I think you misunderstand. I'm not suggesting that format() be used simply because % formatting could be deprecated at some unknown time
years from now; I was clarifying the status of % formatting.
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