[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5 (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Tue Jan 7 12:24:25 CET 2014


Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> Very nice, thanks. If I was to make a blasphemous suggestion I would > even target it for Python 3.4. (No, seriously, this is a big issue > - see the recent discussion by Armin - and the big names involved show > that it is a major holdup of 3.x uptake.) It would of course depend > a lot on how much code from unicode formatting can be retained or > adapted as opposed to a rewrite from scratch.

From what I've seen of the unicode formatting code, a lot would have to be rewritten or refactored. It is a non-trivial task, definitely inappropriate for 3.4.

I do not know the stringlib well enough, so I have a silly question:

Would it be possible to re-use the 2.x stringlib just for the bytes type, name it byteslib and disable features as appropriate?

Stefan Krah



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