How is this advantageous over str.format? [LWN.net]

How is this advantageous over str.format?

Posted Jan 23, 2025 15:56 UTC (Thu) by daroc (editor, #160859)
In reply to: How is this advantageous over str.format? by siddh
Parent article: A revamped Python string-formatting proposal

You can use HTML entities (< and >) if you want to type < and > in comments. It is a little unwieldy to do the escaping yourself, but you get used to it.

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How is this advantageous over str.format?

Posted Jan 23, 2025 19:06 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (3 responses)

Can we get an MD mode for comments, please?

How is this advantageous over str.format?

Posted Jan 27, 2025 6:49 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (guest, #2582) [Link]

For the case of code, just working support for the PRE tag would be an improvement. > and < are generally permitted within PRE tags and verbatim code with unescaped symbols is allowed there. LWN supports PRE tags but doesn't allow these unescaped symbols.

MD mode

Posted Jan 29, 2025 10:05 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

*Strongly* seconded.

But somewhat off topic here. ;-)

MD mode

Posted Jan 29, 2025 13:52 UTC (Wed) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link]

Sorry, I probably should have replied to Cyberax — it's on my list, but our site-development time is currently being spent on a number of anti-bot measures, because we've seen a big surge in the new year.

We'll get to it at some point, though!