On 9/3/05, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote: > > On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > So I think it's best to have two builtins: > > > > print(*args, **kws) > > printf(fmt, *args, **kws) > > It seems pretty bogus to me to add a second builtin just to apply the > % operator for you. I've always really liked that Python doesn't have > separate xyzf functions, because formatting is an operation you can > do directly on the string and pass that to any function you like. > It's much cleaner... I have to agree. While I accept that Barry has genuine use cases for the printf form, I don't quite see why %-formatting isn't enough. Is the print-plus-% form so much less readable and/or maintainable? Paul.
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