On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Here's the text for your reading pleasure. I'll commit the PEP after I
> add some markup.
>
> Major change:
>
> - dropped `format` support, just using %-interpolation
>
> Coming soon:
>
> - Rationale section ;)
>
> ============================================================
> ====================
> PEP: 461
> Title: Adding % formatting to bytes
> Version: $Revision$
> Last-Modified: $Date$
> Author: Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>
> Status: Draft
> Type: Standards Track
> Content-Type: text/x-rst
> Created: 2014-01-13
> Python-Version: 3.5
> Post-History: 2014-01-14, 2014-01-15, 2014-01-17
> Resolution:
>
>
> Abstract
> ========
>
> This PEP proposes adding % formatting operations similar to Python 2's str
> type
> to bytes [1]_ [2]_.
>
>
> Overriding Principles
> =====================
>
> In order to avoid the problems of auto-conversion and Unicode exceptions
> that
> could plague Py2 code, all object checking will be done by duck-typing,
> not by
>
Don't abbreviate; spell out "Python 2".
> values contained in a Unicode representation [3]_.
>
>
> Proposed semantics for bytes formatting
> =======================================
>
> %-interpolation
> ---------------
>
> All the numeric formatting codes (such as %x, %o, %e, %f, %g, etc.)
> will be supported, and will work as they do for str, including the
> padding, justification and other related modifiers.
>
> Example::
>
> >>> b'%4x' % 10
> b' a'
>
> >>> '%#4x' % 10
> ' 0xa'
>
> >>> '%04X' % 10
> '000A'
>
> %c will insert a single byte, either from an int in range(256), or from
> a bytes argument of length 1, not from a str.
>
> Example:
>
> >>> b'%c' % 48
> b'0'
>
> >>> b'%c' % b'a'
> b'a'
>
> %s is restricted in what it will accept::
>
> - input type supports Py_buffer?
> use it to collect the necessary bytes
>
> - input type is something else?
> use its __bytes__ method; if there isn't one, raise a TypeError
>
> Examples:
>
> >>> b'%s' % b'abc'
> b'abc'
>
> >>> b'%s' % 3.14
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
> TypeError: 3.14 has no __bytes__ method
>
> >>> b'%s' % 'hello world!'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
> TypeError: 'hello world' has no __bytes__ method, perhaps you need to
> encode it?
>
> .. note::
>
> Because the str type does not have a __bytes__ method, attempts to
> directly use 'a string' as a bytes interpolation value will raise an
> exception. To use 'string' values, they must be encoded or otherwise
> transformed into a bytes sequence::
>
> 'a string'.encode('latin-1')
>
>
> Numeric Format Codes
> --------------------
>
> To properly handle int and float subclasses, int(), index(), and float()
> will be called on the objects intended for (d, i, u), (b, o, x, X), and
> (e, E, f, F, g, G).
>
>
> Unsupported codes
> -----------------
>
> %r (which calls __repr__), and %a (which calls ascii() on __repr__) are not
> supported.
>
>
> Proposed variations
> ===================
>
> It was suggested to let %s accept numbers, but since numbers have their own
> format codes this idea was discarded.
>
> It has been suggested to use %b for bytes instead of %s.
>
> - Rejected as %b does not exist in Python 2.x %-interpolation, which is
> why we are using %s.
>
> It has been proposed to automatically use .encode('ascii','strict') for str
> arguments to %s.
>
> - Rejected as this would lead to intermittent failures. Better to have
> the
> operation always fail so the trouble-spot can be correctly fixed.
>
> It has been proposed to have %s return the ascii-encoded repr when the
> value
> is a str (b'%s' % 'abc' --> b"'abc'").
>
> - Rejected as this would lead to hard to debug failures far from the
> problem
> site. Better to have the operation always fail so the trouble-spot
> can be
> easily fixed.
>
> Originally this PEP also proposed adding format style formatting, but it
> was
>
"format-style"
> decided that format and its related machinery were all strictly text (aka
> str)
> based, and it was dropped.
>
"that the method and"
>
> Various new special methods were proposed, such as __ascii__,
> __format_bytes___,
> etc.; such methods are not needed at this time, but can be visited again
> later
> if real-world use shows deficiencies with this solution.
>
>
> Footnotes
> =========
>
> .. [1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting
> .. [2] neither string.Template, format, nor str.format are under
> consideration.
> .. [3] %c is not an exception as neither of its possible arguments are
> unicode.
>
+1 from me
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