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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sun Jan 12 22:26:58 CET 2014

On 01/12/2014 01:06 PM, 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.

Which is fine for 3.5+ code, but not at all helpful for a 2/3 code base.

-- Ethan

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