Robert added the comment: regarding the proposal for mini format languages for bytes (msg292663): Wouldn't it be more consistent if the format specifiers are identical to the one of int's (see https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language).
I.e. "X" / "x" for hex, "o" for octal, "d" for decimal, "b" for binary, "c" for character (=default). Only 'A' need to be added for printing only ascii characters. Furthermore I cannot see in how far the format spec in http://bugs.python.org/issue22385#msg292663 ("h#,1") is more intuitive than in http://bugs.python.org/issue22385#msg226733 ("#,.4x"), which looks like the existing minilang. Why does Python need a new format mini lang, if the existing one provides most of the requirements. As developer it is already hard to memorize the details of the existing minilang. Ideally I do not need to learn a similar but different one for bytes... ---------- nosy: +mrh1997 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22385> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
