[Python-Dev] PEP 461 updates (original) (raw)

Greg greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jan 17 02:32:27 CET 2014

On 17/01/2014 10:18 a.m., Terry Reedy wrote:

On 1/16/2014 5:11 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Guido's successful counter was to point out that the parsing of the format string itself assumes ASCII compatible data,

Nick's initial arguments against bytes formatting were very abstract and philosophical, along the lines that it violated some pure mental model of text/bytes separation.

Then Guido said something that Nick took to be an equal and opposite philosophical argument that cancelled out his original objections, and he withdrew them.

I don't think it matters whether the internal details of that debate make sense to the rest of us. The main thing is that a consensus seems to have been reached on bytes formatting being basically a good thing.

-- Greg

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