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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 13 16:33:56 CET 2014

On 01/13/2014 01:49 AM, Mark Shannon wrote:

'%s' can't work in 3.5, as we must differentiate between strings which meed to be encoded and bytes which don't.

I don't understand this objection:

def mod(self, other): if isinstance(other, bytes): # no encoding necessary elif isinstance(other, str): # payback time! other = ascii(other)

Where is the problem?

-- ~~Ethan~~