On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 01/12/2014 04:47 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> %s seems the trickiest: I think with a bytes argument it should just >> insert those bytes (and the padding modifiers should work too), and >> for other types it should probably work like %a, so that it works as >> expected for numeric values, and with a string argument it will return >> the ascii()-variant of its repr(). Examples: >> >> b'%s' % 42 == b'42' >> b'%s' % 'x' == b"'x'" (i.e. the three-byte string containing an 'x' >> enclosed in single quotes) > > I'm not sure about the quotes. Would anyone ever actually want those in the > byte stream?
Perhaps not, but it's a hint that you should probably think about an encoding. It's symmetric with how '%s' % b'x' returns "b'x'". Think of it as payback time. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
