Message 199207 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

Is there any chance we could just have it work for bytes, ints, and floats? That'd solve the immediate need, and it'd be obviously correct how to have those behave.

You mean "%s" and "%d"?

Basically, yes.

Punting this to 3.5 basically means we'll have to either wait for 3.5, or do something awful like use cffi to grab sprintf to port Mercurial.

Or write a pure Python implementation.

Hah. Probably too slow for anything beyond a proof of concept, no?