Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

2009-11-04 Thread Carl Trachte
On 11/4/09, sstein...@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe the 3.x line should just be put out of our misery, merged back > to 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, and proceed as Glyph suggested in passing with > increasing levels of deprecation until it just turns into 3.x on its > own by running out of numbers. As a user, I'm

Re: [Python-Dev] transitioning from % to {} formatting

2009-10-04 Thread Carl Trachte
>> Do the users get any say in this? > > I'm a user! :-) > > I hate calling methods on string literals, I think it looks very odd to > have code like this: > > "Displaying {0} of {1} revisions".format(x, y) > > Will we be able to write this as > > "Displaying {0} of {1} revisions" % (x, y) > >