On 17/01/2014 10:18 a.m., Terry Reedy wrote:
On 1/16/2014 5:11 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Guido's successful counter was to point out that the parsing of the
format string itself assumes ASCII compatible data,
Nick's initial arguments against bytes formatting were very
abstract and philosophical, along the lines that it violated
some pure mental model of text/bytes separation.
Then Guido said something that Nick took to be an equal and
opposite philosophical argument that cancelled out his original
objections, and he withdrew them.
I don't think it matters whether the internal details of that
debate make sense to the rest of us. The main thing is that
a consensus seems to have been reached on bytes formatting
being basically a good thing.
--
Greg
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