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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 13 16:54:17 CET 2014

On 01/13/2014 01:13 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On 13 Jan 2014 17:43, "Ethan Furman" wrote:

On 01/12/2014 10:51 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

I am a strong -1 on the more lenient proposal, as it makes binary interpolation in Python 3 an unsafe operation for ASCII incompatible binary formats. No more unsafe that calling .upper() on ASCII incompatible streams. Right - Guido's proposal is completely useless for arbitrary binary data. You can't trust it.

Forgive me for being dense, but I don't understand your objection. With Guido's proposal, '%s' % bytes_data, bytes_data is passed through unchanged. Did you mean something else by "binary data"?

-- Ethan

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