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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 28 12:06:40 CET 2014


On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:09:58 -0700 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 03/27/2014 03:10 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > R. David Murray wrote: >> I've done the 'landmark' thing as well, in the string context; that can be >> very useful when doing incremental test driven development. (Granted, you >> could do that with bytes; > > Can't you do it more easily just by wrapping ascii() > around the argument? That seems sufficient for debugging > purposes to me.

The problem there is ascii() still returns unicode (okay, okay, str), so you still have to encode it.

ascii(my_object).encode()

Regards

Antoine.



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