[Tutor] String formatting question.

[Steve Willoughby]

On 31-Mar-11 09:46, bob gailer wrote:
> IMHO % formatting is the easiest to use and understand.
> I am sorry that it has been slated for removal.

I had the same reaction, but I think it was mostly because of my long 
background as a C programmer, since it's essentially the equivalent of 
printf() formatting.  Just heavily ingrained in my brain.

However, since the more recent Python 2 versions have supported 
str.format(), and anticipating their removal from Python 3, I have 
started gravitating more to them, and I have to admit they're more 
powerful and probably a good evolutionary step to take.  Especially so 
if your formats are configurable or generated by code which may want to 
reorder the values.


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