[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Implement PEP 393. (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 04:48:59 CEST 2011


On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

On the other hand, not having this code in stringlib would certainly be liberating! Maybe I'll take this opportunity to clean it up and simplify it now that it's free of the stringlib constraints.

Yeah, don't sacrifice speed in str.format for a still-hypothetical-and-potentially-never-going-to-happen bytes formatting variant. If the latter does happen, the use cases would be different enough that I'm not even sure the mini-language should remain entirely the same (e.g. you'd likely want direct access to some of the struct module formatting more so than str-style formats).

Cheers, Nick.

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