[Tutor] table to dictionary and then analysis

[questions anon]

thanks for all of the responses, has been really helpful

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> >
> > > Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
> > > the % operator? % is deprecated now.
> >
> > It most certainly is not.
> >
> > There are no plans to deprecate the string % operator any time in the
> > foreseeable future. It may, hypothetically, wither away from lack of use
>
> OK I am clearly wrong with the statement I made.  I had assumed the
> statement (*) that it would be deprecated in 3.1 was carried through, I
> had not actually checked the reality in the 3.1 and 3.2 differences
> documents.  My apologies for misdirection, thanks for pulling me up on
> this.
>
>
> (*) There is no statement of when deprecation would happen in PEP 3101
> itself http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/ but there is an explicit
> statement in
>
> http://docs.python.org/release/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#pep-3101-a-new-approach-to-string-formattingwhich clearly didn't happen even though it led to a lot of people thinking
> it would.
>
> --
> Russel.
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