Python Language : Save the operator % !

To:  Python Dev Team (and guido, of course !)

If you think that the old string operator '%' shouldn't disappear from the next releases of Python language, please let us known !

Start from python 3.0, the new best practice will be to use string.format instead, which is more powerful (it's a fact) but also more _verbose_


For example,

before :
print "Hello, %s !" % name

now :
print ("Hello, {0} !".format(name))

We can see that, for a simple print function, the new string.format is boring to type. The brackets are not easily found by our fingers on azerty keyboard (altgr + [5/+]), and the resulting expression is longer.

So even if the new string.format is awsome, I really think that the old % operator have some interest, it's a good syntaxic sugar (so are the functions decorators)

The % operator will start to be deprecated in the python 3.1.


Please, help us to save the % operator !

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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