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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jan 20 08:56:09 CET 2014

On 01/19/2014 11:10 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Ethan Furman writes:

> > This argument is specious. > > I don't think so. I think it's a good argument for the future of > Python code. I agree that restricting bytes '%'-formatting to ASCII is a good idea, but you should base your arguments on a correct description of what's going on. It's not an issue of representability. It's an issue of "we should support this for ASCII because it's a useful, nearly universal convention, and we should not support ASCII supersets because that leads to mojibake." > Then you could have your text /and/ your numbers be in your own > language. My language uses numerals other than those in the ASCII repertoire in a rather stylized way. I can't use format for that, because it depends on context, anyway. Most of the time the digits in the ASCII set are used (especially in tables and the like). I believe that's true for all languages nowadays. > Lots of features can be abused. That doesn't mean we shouldn't > talk about the intended use cases and encourage those. I only objected to claims that issues of "representability" and "what I can do with format" support the preferred use cases, not to descriptions of the preferred use cases.

Thank you. I appreciate your time.

-- Ethan

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