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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Jan 15 23:22:10 CET 2014

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:55:31AM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > Neil Schemenauer wrote: > >Objects that implement str can also implement bytes if they > >can guarantee that ASCII characters are always returned, > _> I think ascii would be a better name. I'd expect > a method called bytes on an int to return some > version of its binary value.

+1

If we are going the route of a new magic method then ascii or bytes_format get my vote as long as they only return bytes (I see no need to abbreviate to bformat or formatb when we have method names as long as text_signature now). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140115/51bcde5b/attachment.html>

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