% formatting vs .format() (was: What's wrong with this concatenation statement?)

Tim Chase python.list at tim.thechases.com
Wed May 11 19:31:36 EDT 2016


On 2016-05-11 12:39, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> The docs have discussed it in a few different ways over the years.
> 
> Python 3.0 and 3.1 said:
> 
> 3.2 said:
> 
> 3.3 and up say:

I've picked up on the "% formatting not going away, .format() more
flexible" vibe but had missed the evolution in the docs to clarify
the intent. Thanks for the succinct summary of how that's changed.

-tkc






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