Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#28810 closed Cleanup/optimization

Use the Python 3-esque str.format logging formatting style over '%' — at Version 2

Reported by: Chris Lamb Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Other) Version: 1.11
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Tim Graham)

We currently use the %(foo)s style in Django and in docs. This "smells" quite Python 2.x when there is a str.format variety that uses, eg. {foo}.

Change History (2)

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

I'm not sure why you say "Python 3-esque str.format" in the description. str.format() was added in Python 2.6. I see that logging support for that style (by using style='{') was added in Python 3.2.

I'm not opposed to the change, as it seems like a slight readability enhancement, although generally I think there's a consensus against using mandating str.format() usage everwhere in Django and prohibiting the %s syntax. I think there was a ticket but I can't find it at the moment.

My only concern with the proposal is whether it could break backwards compatibility. I see an update to ServerFormatter.uses_server_time() was required. I'm not sure if it's likely that user code may make similar assumptions about the format string.

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