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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jan 14 22:07:57 CET 2014

On 01/14/2014 12:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

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 Pybuffer instead.

Meaning any bytes or bytes-subtype will support the Py_buffer protocol, and this should be the first thing we try?

Sounds good.

For that matter, should the first test be "does this object support Py_buffer" and not worry about it being isinstance(obj, bytes)?

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

That is a key question.

Obviously we have int, float, and complex. We also have Decimal.

But what about Fraction? Or some users numeric class that doesn't inherit from a core numeric type? Wherever we draw the line, we need to make it's well-documented.

-- Ethan

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