[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5 (original) (raw)
Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Tue Jan 7 15:31:08 CET 2014
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On 01/07/2014 06:24 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:
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?
I do know it pretty well. I think reusing stringlib from either 2.x or 3.x pre-PEP-393 version would be the best way to go about this. Unfortunately, reusing (or sharing) the PEP-393 version currently in 3.4 is probably not realistic.
Eric.
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