[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jan 15 05🔞37 CET 2014

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

I don't think mixing bytes and strings makes good semantic sense.

It's not about mixing bytes and text -- it's about writing polymorphic code that will work on either bytes or text. Not both at the same time.

If we had quantum computers, this would be easy to solve: asciistr would be of type str/sqrt(2) + bytes/sqrt(2), and everything would work out fine. :-)

-- Greg

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