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

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon Jan 13 00:04:56 CET 2014


On 1/12/2014 2:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> But bytes already acknowledges an ASCII bias.

True, but that bias is implemented without use of encoding or decoding. b'%d' % (123,) -> b'123' does require encoding, at the very least in the sense of type change and serialization. b'%d' all by itself, even before using the % operator, does require encoding, at the very list in the sense of type change and serialization. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140112/fc6488e7/attachment.html>



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