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On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 12:57:31PM -0400, Phil Budne wrote:
> On the subject of "no printf", there is not one, not two, but THREE
> ways to format strings, easily compounded with print:
> 
> 	print("%s %s" % ("hello", "world"))
> 	print("{1} {two}".format("hello", two="world"))
> 	print(f"{greeting} {populace}")
> 
> I'm pretty sure the last method (which initially made me vomit, due to

All of those make me vomit.  Pretty much every sane language has printf.