[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jan 14 23:12:48 CET 2014
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
Actually, Nick explained that asciistr() + asciistr() returns str,
That part seems wrong to me, because it means that you can't write polymorphic byte/string functions that are composable.
I would be -1 on that, and prefer that asciistr + asciistr --> asciistr.
-- Greg
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