On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 13 January 2014 23:57, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote: >> >> 1) What do we need in terms of functionality >> >> >> >> Best guess, %s, %d, and %f. I've not done a full audit of the code, but >> >> some >> >> limited looking over the grep hits for % in .py files suggests I'm >> >> right, >> >> and we could even do without %f (we only use that for 'hg --time' >> >> output, >> >> which we could do in unicode). >> > >> > I think PEP 460 will have you covered there, or hopefully asciistr on >> > 3.3+ >> >> I'm confused on how PEP 460 would help -- Augie mentioned %d, which it >> excludes. > > > > Yes - not having %d makes this much much less useful to me. > > For my part, it'd probably be fine if we could do %s (which would handle an > RHS that was bytes, and only bytes, no handing of str or __bytes__-type > stuff at all) and %d (with all the usual format modifiers, and would result > in an ascii-compatible sequence of bytes all the time). Would it be okay of instead of %s you had to use %b for those semantics? (%d would still exist) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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