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

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 12 22:16:23 CET 2014

On 12/01/2014 21:06, Greg Ewing wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

I could easily argue at this point that this is the type of bug that having %-formatting operations on bytes would encourage - %s means "format a string" (from years of C and Python (text) experience) so I automatically supply a string argument when using %s in a bytes formatting context. So don't call it %s -- call it something else such as %b.

Sorry but you can't use %b as that'll confuse people who're used to it meaning "Month as locale’s abbreviated name." :)

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Mark Lawrence

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