Nobody talks much about the original goal of
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." -- PEP 20 (!)
Back when, I lurved me some Perl TMTOWTDI as much as the next guy--plenty of uses for such a thing in a Swiss army chain saw--but then Python had a good (or at least different) answer to that by reducing the language load and focusing more on the problem.
So tell me, how many string formatters do we have now? Could we please decruft and dump some of them while we're at it? % or f' or .format or whatever, but please just pick one and get the rest out of my face.
Back when, I lurved me some Perl TMTOWTDI as much as the next guy--plenty of uses for such a thing in a Swiss army chain saw--but then Python had a good (or at least different) answer to that by reducing the language load and focusing more on the problem.
So tell me, how many string formatters do we have now? Could we please decruft and dump some of them while we're at it? % or f' or .format or whatever, but please just pick one and get the rest out of my face.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...