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On 14 Jan 2014 03:34, "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org> wrote:
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\> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
\> > On 13 January 2014 23:57, Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com> wrote:
\> >> 1) What do we need in terms of functionality
\> >>
\> >> Best guess, %s, %d, and %f. I've not done a full audit of the code, but some
\> >> limited looking over the grep hits for % in .py files suggests I'm right,
\> >> and we could even do without %f (we only use that for 'hg --time' output,
\> >> which we could do in unicode).
\> >
\> > I think PEP 460 will have you covered there, or hopefully asciistr on 3.3+
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\> I'm confused on how PEP 460 would help -- Augie mentioned %d, which it excludes.

I meant your proposed more lenient version (since there's no need for the binary only version to be in the common 2/3 subset).

Cheers,
Nick.

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