[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

    PP> Okay, so my proposal for $ doesn't do everything that %
    PP> does. It was never spec'd to do everything "%" does. For
    PP> instance it doesn't do float formatting tricks.

Does anybody ever even use something other than `s' for %() strings?

>>> '%(float)f' % {'float': 3.9}
'3.900000'

I never have.
-Barry