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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Indeed, that note was written before we decided that getting rid of<br>
"%" formatting altogether would be a bad idea.<br>
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It would be better to update it to say something like:<br>
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"The formatting operations described here are modelled on C's printf()<br>
syntax. They only support formatting of certain builtin types, and the<br>
use of a binary operator means that care may be needed in order to<br>
format tuples and dictionaries correctly. As the new string formatting<br>
syntax is more powerful, flexible, extensible and handles tuples and<br>
dictionaries naturally, it is recommended for new code. However, there<br>
are no current plans to deprecate printf-style formatting."<br></blockquote></div><br>+1 on rephrasing that doc section, but I wouldn't mention deprecation at all. It's alright to keep calling % formatting "old style" and encouraging .format instead, of course.<br>