On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 7/23/10 2:44 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> Indeed, we meant b'...{}...{}...'.format(x, y). The problem is that it >> can't invoke x.__format__() or y.__format__() since those will return >> text strings instead of bytes. A proposed solution was to try >> x.__bformat__() etc. Another proposed solution was to limit x and y to >> a small set of common types and hard-code their meanings (e.g. >> numbers, bytes, and dates). > > If there were an __bformat__ method, what would object.__bformat__() return?
Maybe self.__format__(..).encode('ascii')? ...encode('utf-8') is a tempting alternative as well. _______________________________________________ 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