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

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 19:41:54 CEST 2010

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

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?

Maybe self.format(..).encode('ascii')? ...encode('utf-8') is a tempting alternative as well.

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