On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 00:45:58 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right, but it seems to me that a new helper module that could be made > backwards compatible at least as far as 2.6 (if not further) would be more > useful for that than a builtin change that won't be available until 2015.
More useful in the short term, less useful in the long term. > An encodedstr type wouldn't implicitly interoperate with the builtins > (until we finally fix the sequence operand coercion bug in CPython) but > could at least handle formatting operations like this. That's a crude hack. Also it doesn't address the situation where you want to interpolate bytestrings without them having any textual significance. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
