[Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 13 04:47:38 CET 2014

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 01/12/2014 06:16 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

If you do : --> b'%s' % 'some text' Ignore what I previously said. With no encoding the result would be: b"'some text'" So an encoding should definitely be specified.

Yes, but the encoding is no business of %s or %. As far as the formatting operation cares, if the argument is bytes they will be copied literally, and if the argument is a str (or anything else) it will call ascii() on it.

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