steven bethard tzmfkenpikfgggmailcom sat apr 12 2008 1226 pm georg brandl wrote steven bethard schrieb sat apr 12 2008 826 wrote nick thats exactly problem though 2to3 fixer nick written tiny subset formatting calls meet nick constraints gave personal experience either lhs string literal rhs locals globals tuple yes hard impossible time general x still think fixer addresses tiny subset would go long ways converting existing code rest could insert special comments programmer grep problematic cases rather inserting special comments dont introduce 3 warning using string formatting use 2to3 convert much use 3 warning identify places youre using string formatting fix hand adding 3 warning shouldnt much couple lines beginning stringobjectcpystring_format please dont py3k warning makes sense feature isnt really going away py3k py3k warnings really warn things going break 30 understanding wed break string formatting py3k could reason wont generally possible write 2to3 fixer wont actually break think conveying intention break using 3 warning wouldnt unreasonable steve im insane indeed far sane appear tiny blip distant coast sanity bucky katt get fuzzy _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 080920 0600 python3000 implementing formatting terms strformat