[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jan 14 23:46:33 CET 2014
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
Yep - that's why I consider asciistr to be firmly in the "power tool" category. If you know what you're doing, it should let you write hybrid API code that is just as concise as Python 2, but it's also far more error prone than the core Python 3 text model.
Hm. It sounds like the kind of power tool that only candidates for the Darwin award would use.
The more I hear you defend it, the less I think it's a good idea for anything. And limiting it to PyPy doesn't make it less dangerous.
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