On 1/17/2014 10:15 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
For both options 1 and 2 surely you cannot be suggesting that after people have written 2.x code to use format() as %f formatting is to be deprecated,
I will not be for at least a decade.
they now have to change the code back to the way they may well have written it in the first place?
I would suggest that people simply .encode the result if bytes are needed in 3.x as well as 2.x. Polyglot code will likely have a 'py3' boolean already to make the encoding conditional.
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