[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

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[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e1d6140b02f0 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.3': Issue #18031: %-formatting isn't dead yet and might pull through. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e1d6140b02f0 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ef037ad304c1 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '2.7': Issue #18031: %-formatting isn't dead yet and might pull through. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ef037ad304c1 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

Eric V. Smith added the comment: I agree that we should not say that %-formatting will be removed from the language. Not until Python 5000, anyway. -- nosy: +eric.smith ___ Python tracker _

[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

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[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

Carlos Nepomuceno added the comment: According to what I have been told at python-l...@python.org str.__mod__() is not going to be deprecated and that seems to be a myth created by Python's own documentation. I do remember to have read previously in another page that it would be deprecated bu

[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Can you please provide some context for this report? On the abstract, I agree that there is an error in the tutorial: it is not decided whether the % formatting will be eventually removed, and I would also personally disagree with the recommendation to prefer

[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

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[issue18031] The Python Tutorial says % string formatting will be removed

New submission from Carlos Nepomuceno: It[1] says: "Since str.format() is quite new, a lot of Python code still uses the % operator. However, because this old style of formatting will eventually be removed from the language, str.format() should generally be used." [1] http://docs.python.org/2/