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Tue Jan 7 12:13:08 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/130964.html

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:40:15 +0100
Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 06.01.2014 14:24, schrieb Victor Stinner:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > bytes % args and bytes.format(args) are requested by Mercurial and
> > Twisted projects. The issue #3982 was stuck because nobody proposed a
> > complete definition of the "new" features. Here is a try as a PEP.
> 
> Very nice, thanks.  If I was to make a blasphemous suggestion I would
> even target it for Python 3.4.  (No, seriously, this is a big issue
> - see the recent discussion by Armin - and the big names involved show
> that it is a major holdup of 3.x uptake.)  It would of course depend
> a lot on how much code from unicode formatting can be retained or
> adapted as opposed to a rewrite from scratch.

From what I've seen of the unicode formatting code, a lot would have to
be rewritten or refactored. It is a non-trivial task, definitely
inappropriate for 3.4.

Regards

Antoine.

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[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5