[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 18:04:20 CET 2014

On 12 January 2014 16:52, Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:

I mean, basically what I am suggesting is that in addition to %b with

def helper(o): return str(o).encode('ascii', 'strict') b'foo%bbar'%(helper(myobj), ) you have b'foo%sbar'%(myobj, )

But that's not what the current PEP says. It uses %s for interpolating bytes values. It looks like you're saying that

b'abc %s' % (b'def')

will not produce b'abc def', but rather will produce b'abc b'def'' (because str(b'def'') is "b'def'").

If that's what you're saying, then fine, but it's a different PEP and I for one am -1 specifically because of the behaviour I show above. Paul

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