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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jan 16 03:15:35 CET 2014


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:46:07PM -0800, Glenn Linderman wrote:

On 1/15/2014 4:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >What precisely does it do? If it's so obvious, why is this thread so >long?

It produces a formatted representation of the object in bytes. For numbers, that would probably be expected to be ASCII digits and punctuation. But other items are not as obvious.

My point exactly.

-- Steven



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