Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Well, msg171804 makes it a much bigger project than the feature that Twisted
actually needs. Quoting:
* The default formatting should not use str(), but buffer protocol.
Fine.
* There is no place for floating point.
Actually they do need it -- and it's trivial to define, since fp only returns
ASCII characters.
* There is no place for locale.
Agreed.
* There is no place for 'r' conversion (possible only for 'a').
Agreed.
* It should include the features of struct.pack(), int.to_bytes() and ctypes.
Not needed.
* Padding should be not only by space, but also by zeros (and possibly by other
values).
Not needed.
* Alignment (padding to position divisible by some number).
Not needed.
* In addition to padding and truncating should be the ability to raise an
exception in case of discrepancy between the needed and actual lengths.
Not needed.
* It unlikely needed attribute access and indexing.
I don't know, but these features certainly would be well-defined.
* Builtin format() should not work with this.
Fine.
Probably bytes.format() should not try to call v.__format__(); if an extension
mechanism is needed it would be called something else, but given the limited
set of types needed I think this can be skipped.
The most important requirement from Twisted is actually that it is called
.format(), and that the overall format strings look like they did for 8-bit
string formatting in Python 2. In particular b'a{}b{}c'.format(x, y), where x
and y are bytes, should be equivalent to b'a' x + b'b' + y + b'c'.
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