On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: > On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, >>> >>> My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it. >>> I'd rather wait until byte is fully defined, implemented, and >>> released >>> in a python version before that option is taken away. >> >> Has this been proposed? What would %b print? > > I don't believe it's been proposed and I don't know what it'd print. > Perhaps it indicates the bytes should be passed through without > conversion.
That doesn't make any sense. What is "without conversion"? Does that mean UTF-8, UCS-2, UCS-4, latin-1, Shift-JIS? You can't have unicode without some kind of conversion. > In any case I only advocate waiting until it's clear that bytes have > no need for it before we use it for binary conversions. I don't see what business a byte type has mingling with string formatters other than the normal str and repr coercions via %s and %r respectively. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
