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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Mar 29 19:59:07 CET 2014

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:53:45 -0700 "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

I understand that sentiment but that is an unjustified fear. It is not a good reason not to do it. Projects are already trying to port stuff today and running into roadblocks when it comes to ascii-compatible bytes formatting for real world data formats in code needing to be 2.x compatible. I'm pulling out my practicality beats purity card here.

"Roadblocks" is an unjustified term here. Important code bases such as Tornado have already achieved this a long time ago. While lack of bytes formatting does make porting harder, it is not a "roadblock" as in you can't work it around.

Mercurial is one of the large Python 2.4-2.7 code bases that needs this feature in order to support Python 3 in a sane manner. (+Augie Fackler to look at the latest http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0461/ to confirm usefulness)

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2014-March/057474.html

Regards

Antoine.

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