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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sat Jan 11 03:28:41 CET 2014


On 01/10/2014 06:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:53:09 -0500 "Eric V. Smith" <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

So, I'm -1 on the PEP. It doesn't address the cases laid out in issue 3892. See for example http://bugs.python.org/issue3982#msg180432 . Then we might as well not do anything, since any attempt to advance things is met by stubborn opposition in the name of "not far enough".

Heh, and here I thought it was stubborn opposition in the name of purity. ;)

(I don't care much personally, I think the issue is quite overblown anyway)

Is it safe to assume you don't use Python for the use-cases under discussion? Specifically, mixed ASCII, binary, and encoded-text byte streams?

-- Ethan



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