[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010 (original) (raw)

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sun Jul 25 19:13:14 CEST 2010

On 7/23/10 2:44 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Indeed, we meant b'...{}...{}...'.format(x, y). The problem is that it can't invoke x.format() or y.format() since those will return text strings instead of bytes. A proposed solution was to try x.bformat() etc. Another proposed solution was to limit x and y to a small set of common types and hard-code their meanings (e.g. numbers, bytes, and dates).

If there were an bformat method, what would object.bformat() return?

-- Eric.

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