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

Kristján Valur Jónsson kristjan at ccpgames.com
Sat Jan 11 11:56:46 CET 2014

I don't know what the fuss is about. This isn't about breaking the text model. It's about a convenient way to turn text into bytes using a default, lenient, way. Not the other way round. Here's my proposal

b'foo%sbar' % (a)

would implicitly apply the following function equivalent to every object in the tuple: def coerce_ascii(o): if has_bytes_interface(o): return o return o.encode('ascii', 'strict')

There's no need for special %d or %f formatting. If more fanciful formatting is required, e.g. exponents or, or precision, then by all means, to it in the str domain:

b'foo%sbar' %("%.15f"%(42.2, ))

Basically, let's just support simple bytes interpolation that will support coercing into bytes by means of strict ascii. It's a one way convenience, explicitly requested, and for conselting adults.

-----Original Message----- From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Nick Coghlan Sent: 11. janúar 2014 08:43 To: Ethan Furman Cc: python-dev at python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5

No, it's "the POSIX text model is completely broken and we're not letting people bring it back by stealth because they want to stuff their esoteric use case back into the builtin data types instead of writing their own dedicated type now that the builtin types don't handle it any more".

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