On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 05:26:04 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We should probably include format_map for consistency with the str API.
Yes, you're right. > >However, I > > also added bytearray into the mix, as bytearray objects should > > generally support the same operations as bytes (and they can be useful > > *especially* for network programming). > > So we'd define the *format* string as mutable to get a mutable result out > of the formatting operations? This seems a little weird to me. > > It also seems weird for a format method on a mutable type to *not* perform > in-place mutation. It's consistent with bytearray.join's behaviour: >>> x = bytearray() >>> x.join([b"abc"]) bytearray(b'abc') >>> x bytearray(b'') 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