Martin Panter added the comment: I don’t think the API should be expanded to accept arbitrary bytes-like objects as format strings. Struct formats are strings of ASCII-compatible characters, but not arbitrary chunks of memory.
I think the main question is whether it is okay to break compatibility (Victor’s pull request, or my format-str.patch), or whether there has to be a backwards-compatible deprecation of the existing bytes attribute. FWIW I am okay with breaking compatibility, since the main documentation already implies it should be a text string. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21071> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
