[Python-Dev] PEP 461 Final? (original) (raw)

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 17 19:19:57 CET 2014

On 17/01/2014 17:46, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

I think we should use %b instead of %s. In that case, I'm fine with %b not accepting numbers. Using %b clearly indicates we are inserting arbitrary bytes. It also proves a useful code review step when translating from Python 2.x.

Using %b could cause problems in the future as b is used in new style formatting to mean output numbers in binary, so %B seems to me the obvious choice as it's also unused.

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Mark Lawrence

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