Personally I dislike % formatting even if it's a few characters shorter to type. .format is superior in every other way and has consistent-with-everything-else

Personally I dislike % formatting even if it's a few characters shorter to type. .format is superior in every other way and has consistent-with-everything-else method call syntax. Edit: I think it's largely the special flower overloading of the % operator that bugs me the most. If % was spelled .sprintf I'd like it more.