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

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 12 18:23:00 CET 2014

On 12/01/2014 17:06, Mark Shannon wrote:

On 12/01/14 16:52, Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote:

Now you're just splitting hairs, Nick.

An explicit operator, %s, defined to be "encode a string object using strict ascii", I don't like this because '%s' reads to me as "insert string here". I think '%a' which reads as "encode as ASCII and insert here" would be better.

I entirely agree. This would also parallel the conversion flags given here http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-string-syntax, I quote "Three conversion flags are currently supported: '!s' which calls str() on the value, '!r' which calls repr() and '!a' which calls ascii()".

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Mark Lawrence

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