On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a formatting character that means "anything except a unicode > string" to prevent accidentally interpolating a Unicode string into a > bytes string without [a sane] encoding?
No, and we shouldn't introduce one. An operation should either work for no type, one type, a few specific types, or all types. Something that works for all but one type will *appear* to work for all types to a casually experimenting user and may pass extensive unittests, leaving a bomb that can detonate when you least expect it. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
