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pansa2 8 days ago

I don’t think I’ve ever used % formatting in Python - what makes it safer than `format`?

masklinn 8 days ago | parent [-]

`str.format` allows the format string to navigate through indexes, entries, and attributes. If the result of the formatting is echoed back and any non-trivial object it passed in, it allows for all sorts of introspection.

printf-style... does not support any of that. It can only format the objects passed in.