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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 13 21:13:16 CET 2014

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

I personally would not add 'bytes % whatever'. Personally, neither would I; just focus on bytes.format() and let % operator on strings slowly go away.

Well, % has some very strong arguments in its favor still -- for example, the sheer amount of code that currently uses it, the fact that it's as close as we get to a cross-language standard, and the fact that nobody wants to tackle its use in the logging module (since logger objects are often shared between packages that don't know about each other).

Anyway, the % or .format() issue seems completely orthogonal to the issues that get people riled up (which are mostly about whether using either implies some kind of ASCII compatibility).

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