[Python-Dev] PEP460 thoughts from a Mercurial dev (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 22:56:26 CET 2014

On 14 Jan 2014 03:34, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 January 2014 23:57, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote: >> 1) What do we need in terms of functionality >> >> Best guess, %s, %d, and %f. I've not done a full audit of the code, but some >> limited looking over the grep hits for % in .py files suggests I'm right, >> and we could even do without %f (we only use that for 'hg --time' output, >> which we could do in unicode). > > I think PEP 460 will have you covered there, or hopefully asciistr on 3.3+ I'm confused on how PEP 460 would help -- Augie mentioned %d, which it excludes.

I meant your proposed more lenient version (since there's no need for the binary only version to be in the common 2/3 subset).

Cheers, Nick.

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