From 365cf28cc23a5ef8cd22bfe8f526eaf70e9c9249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:21:11 +0000 Subject: Issue 7343: notes on {} formatting versus % formatting --- Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst index ba9afe8..2148272 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst @@ -488,8 +488,8 @@ consulted for longer descriptions. :meth:`format` method for both 8-bit and Unicode strings. In 3.0, only the :class:`str` type (text strings with Unicode support) supports this method; the :class:`bytes` type does not. The plan is - to eventually make this the only API for string formatting, and to - start deprecating the ``%`` operator in Python 3.1. + to make this the preferred API for string formatting and to + de-emphasize the ``%`` string formatting operator. * :ref:`pep-3105`. This is now a standard feature and no longer needs to be imported from :mod:`__future__`. More details were given above. -- cgit v0.12