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

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Jan 15 06:57:57 CET 2014

Steven D'Aprano writes:

I thought I understand the purpose of asciistr was exactly that, to produce something that was compatible with both bytes and strings.

asciistr canonizes something as an ASCII string, and therefore compatible with both bytes and str. It can't create such a thing ex nihilo.

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