Steven Bethard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: >> As someone who likes .format() and who already uses such bound methods to >> print, such as in >> >> emsg = "...".format >> ... >> if c: print(emsg(arg, barg)) >> >> I find this **MUCH** preferable to the ugly and seemingly unnecessary >> wrapper class idea being bandied about. This would be scarcely worse than >> passing the string itself. > > But it's not much of a transition plan. It is a 'plan' to transition from not being able to use the new formatting, which I prefer, throughout the stdlib, to being able to do so. I believe most, even if not all, find that acceptable. Certainly, I think you should be able to implement the above for argparse before submitting it. And I would hope that 3.2, in a year, is generally .format usable. This is the first step in a possible long-term replacement, but there is currently no consensus to do any more than this. So I think it premature to do any more. I would agree, for instance, that an auto-translation tool is needed. Terry Jan Reedy
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