[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Mar 27 21:00:08 CET 2014

I love it!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 03/27/2014 11:59 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

PS. I am not trying to be difficult. I honestly don't understand the use case yet, and the PEP doesn't do much to support it. How's this? ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Compatibility with Python 2 =========================== As noted above, %s is being included solely to help ease migration from, and/or have a single code base with, Python 2. This is important as there are modules both in the wild and behind closed doors that currently use the Python 2 str type as a bytes container, and hence are using %s as a bytes interpolator. However, %b should be used in new, Python 3 only code, so %s will immediately be deprecated, but not removed until the next major Python release. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- -- Ethan

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