On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:11:47 -0800 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > On 01/12/2014 04:47 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> %s seems the trickiest: I think with a bytes argument it should just > >> insert those bytes (and the padding modifiers should work too), and > >> for other types it should probably work like %a, so that it works as > >> expected for numeric values, and with a string argument it will return > >> the ascii()-variant of its repr(). Examples: > >> > >> b'%s' % 42 == b'42' > >> b'%s' % 'x' == b"'x'" (i.e. the three-byte string containing an 'x' > >> enclosed in single quotes) > > > > I'm not sure about the quotes. Would anyone ever actually want those in the > > byte stream? > > Perhaps not, but it's a hint that you should probably think about an > encoding. It's symmetric with how '%s' % b'x' returns "b'x'". Think of > it as payback time. :-)
What is the use case for embedding a quoted ASCII-encoded representation in a byte stream? 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
