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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 13 17:33:04 CET 2014

On 01/13/2014 07:52 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Jan 12, 2014, at 09:45 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

Quotes in the stream are a great debug hint, without blowing up. They actually terrible for debugging for exactly the same reason as coercion in Python 2. It's rarely what you really want, it silently succeeds, and it means that the user visible error is far removed from the actual bug, both in code distance and time. So yes, it tells you Something Went Wrong, but is actually a hindrance to finding and fixing the problem.

You mean like this is?

--> '%s' % b'abc' "b'abc'"

I agree, but we're stuck with it with str, we may as well be stuck with it for bytes, too. :/

-- Ethan

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