Ignore error with non-zero exit status

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Dec 21 18:53:42 EST 2015


On 12/21/2015 9:05 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
>> <PointedEars at web.de> wrote:
>>> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>> On 21/12/2015 07:51, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>>>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>>>> But it's been clearly stated that .format is not going to do away with
>>>>>> percent formatting, and all language of "new-style formatting" has
>>>>>> been removed so as not to cause confusion.
>>>>> Wishful thinking, twice.
>>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/969817
>>> What is this supposed to be evidence of?
>>
>> Proof that percent formatting isn't planned for deprecation, much less
>> removal.
>
> Then it would have failed to accomplish that.
>
>> There is strong support for it in certain quarters of python-dev. […]
>
> There *was*.  The referred thread is from 2012-02.  It is 2015-12.

Nothing has changed since except for
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/
already added to 3.6.

If the 2.7 doc still implies that % -formatting is deprecated, it should 
changed as in the 3.x docs.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy





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