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[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #14123: Explicitly mention that old style % string formatting has caveats
Georg Brandlg.brandl at gmx.net
Sun Feb 26 22:50:41 CET 2012
On 02/26/2012 10:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Eli Bendersky<eliben at gmail.com> wrote:>>>>> It would be nice to call it something else than "printf-style>>> formatting". While it is certainly modelled on printf(), knowledge of C>>> or printf is not required to understand %-style formatting, nor even to>>> appreciate it.>>>>>> +1. The section is already titled "old string formatting operations" so if>> this name is acceptable it should be reused. If it's not, it should then be>> consistently changed everywhere.>> I deliberately chose printf-style as being value neutral (whereas> old-style vs new-style carries a heavier recommendation that you> should be using the new one). Sure you don't need to know printf to> understand it, but it needs *some* kind of name, and "printf-style"> acknowledges its roots. Another value-neutral term is "mod-style",> which describes how it is invoked (and I believe we do use that in a> few places already).I've seen "percent-formatting", which is neutral, accurate and doesn'trequire any previous knowledge. (The new one could be "format-formatting"then, which is a tad awkward. :)Georg
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