On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Do the users get any say in this?
> I imagine that some people are heavily invested in %-formatting.
>
> Because there has been limited uptake on {}-formatting (afaict),
> we still have limited experience with knowing that it is actually
> better, less error-prone, easier to learn/rember, etc. Outside
> a handful of people on this list, I have yet to see anyone adopt
> it as the preferred syntax.
Well, I actually think it was a pretty bad idea to introduce {}
formatting, because %-formatting is well-known in many other
languages, and $-formatting is used by basically all the rest. So the
introduction of {}-formatting has always seemed silly to me, and I
wish it had not happened.
HOWEVER, much worse than having a new, different, and strange
formatting convention is having *multiple* formatting conventions
arbitrarily used in different places within the language, with no
rhyme or reason.
So, given that brace-formatting was added, and that it's been declared
the way forward, I'd *greatly* prefer it taking over everywhere in
python, instead of having to use a mixture.
James
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