f-string will become the "obvious" way. It's as fast as "%", and as powerful as "format()". We just don't comply with the "preferably" here. And yes, I would pr

f-string will become the "obvious" way. It's as fast as "%", and as powerful as "format()". We just don't comply with the "preferably" here. And yes, I would prefer to have Template and % sent to the trash bin so we are left with less options, but that would break too much code.