[Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jan 14 21:57:30 CET 2014


On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:56:25 -0800 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

%s, because it is the most general, has the most convoluted resolution: - input type is bytes? pass it straight through

It should try to get a Py_buffer instead.

- input type is numeric? use its xxx [1] [2] method and ascii-encode it (strictly)

What is the definition of "numeric"?

Regards

Antoine.



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