On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > BTW, there's a subtlety here: ``%s`` currently means "insert the result > of calling __str__", but bytes formatting should *not* call __str__.
Since it derives from the C printf notation, it means "insert string here". The fact that __str__ will be called is secondary to that. I would say it's not a problem for bytes formatting to call __bytes__, or in some other way convert to bytes without calling __str__. Will it be confusing to have bytes and str supporting distinctly different format operations? Might it be better to instead create a separate and very different method on a bytes, just to emphasize the difference? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
