On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> I hear the objections against b'%s' % 'x' returning b"'x'" loud and > clear, and if the noise about that sub-issue is preventing folks from > seeing the absurdity in PEP 460, we can talk about a compromise, e.g. > use %b which would require its argument to be bytes. Those bytes > should still probably be ASCII-ish, but there's no way to test that. > That's fine with me and should be fine to Nick as well -- PEP 460 > doesn't check that your encodings match (how could it? :-), nor does > plain string concatenation using +. I think disallowing %s is the right thing to do, but I definitely think numbers and %b should be allowed. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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