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

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 21:15:34 CET 2014

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

On January 13, 2014 at 3:08:43 PM, Daniel Holth (dholth at gmail.com) wrote:

I see it now. b"foo%sbar" % b'baz' should also expand to b"foob'foo'bar" Instead of "%b" could "%j" mean "I should have used + or join() here but was too lazy" and work on str too? Isn’t this just error prone? Since it’s a new format character, many, probably, would write %s by mistake. And, besides, there was no %j in python2.

Merely a flesh wound.

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