On 12/01/2014 17:06, Mark Shannon wrote:
On 12/01/14 16:52, Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote:
Now you're just splitting hairs, Nick.
An explicit operator, %s, _defined_ to be "encode a string object using
strict ascii",
I don't like this because '%s' reads to me as "insert *string* here".
I think '%a' which reads as "encode as ASCII and insert here" would be
better.
I entirely agree. This would also parallel the conversion flags given
here http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-string-syntax,
I quote "Three conversion flags are currently supported: '!s' which
calls str() on the value, '!r' which calls repr() and '!a' which calls
ascii()".
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what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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