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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jan 12 23:12:45 CET 2014

Mark Lawrence wrote:

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()".

Except that ascii() does something rather different -- it's a variation on repr() rather than str(), and it doesn't imply any encoding operation.

I think this parallel would be more confusing than helpful.

-- Greg

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