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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jan 12 23:12:35 CET 2014


Ethan Furman wrote:

Your asciistr, which sometimes returns bytes and sometimes returns text, is absolutely not what we want.

The kind of third-party thing that might fill the bill would be a function:

bytesformat(b"Content-Length: %d", length)

that implements all the %-specifiers we're asking for.

-- Greg



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