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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 8 23:42:13 CET 2014

Hi,

With Victor's consent, I overhauled PEP 460 and made the feature set more restricted and consistent with the bytes/str separation. However, I also added bytearray into the mix, as bytearray objects should generally support the same operations as bytes (and they can be useful especially for network programming).

Regards

Antoine.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:24:50 +0100 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

bytes % args and bytes.format(args) are requested by Mercurial and Twisted projects. The issue #3982 was stuck because nobody proposed a complete definition of the "new" features. Here is a try as a PEP. The PEP is a draft with open questions. First, I'm not sure that both bytes%args and bytes.format(args) are needed. The implementation of .format() is more complex, so why not only adding bytes%args? Then, the following points must be decided to define the complete list of supported features (formatters):

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