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

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Mon Jan 13 20:13:13 CET 2014

On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

I hear the objections against b'%s' % 'x' returning b"'x'" loud and clear, and if the noise about that sub-issue is preventing folks from seeing the absurdity in PEP 460, we can talk about a compromise, e.g. use %b which would require its argument to be bytes. Those bytes should still probably be ASCII-ish, but there's no way to test that. That's fine with me and should be fine to Nick as well -- PEP 460 doesn't check that your encodings match (how could it? :-), nor does plain string concatenation using +.

I think disallowing %s is the right thing to do, but I definitely think numbers and %b should be allowed.

Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA

-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140113/4111a320/attachment.sig>

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list