On 17/01/2014 10:18 a.m., Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/16/2014 5:11 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Guido's successful counter was to point out that the parsing of the >> format string itself assumes ASCII compatible data, Nick's initial arguments against bytes formatting were very abstract and philosophical, along the lines that it violated some pure mental model of text/bytes separation. Then Guido said something that Nick took to be an equal and opposite philosophical argument that cancelled out his original objections, and he withdrew them. I don't think it matters whether the internal details of that debate make sense to the rest of us. The main thing is that a consensus seems to have been reached on bytes formatting being basically a good thing. -- Greg
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