New Python 3.0 string formatting - really necessary?

[Carl Banks]

On Dec 19, 12:10 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> walterbyrd schrieb:
>
> > On Dec 19, 9:13 am, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> You can use the old 2.x syntax also in Python 3.x:
>
> > Yeah, but it's deprecated, and - as I understand it - may be removed
> > completely in future versions. Also, in the future, if you are working
> > with code from another developer, it's likely that developer will use
> > the new format. I suppose you can use both - but what an awful mess
> > that would be.
>
> It's not going to be removed for many years - if ever. The % string
> formatting system is not deprecated in 3.0. For that very reason it must
> stay until 3.2. We don't have plans to deprecate it in 3.1 so it will
> stay at least until Python 3.3 which is to be released about 2014.

I wish they would have at least deprecated or got rid of the %
operator, because that's ugly.  There's no reason they couldn't have
added another method for printf-style formating, e.g.:

"The answer is %s.".sprintf("yes")


Carl Banks