Ethan Furman writes: > > This argument is specious. > > I don't think so. I think it's a good argument for the future of > Python code.
I agree that restricting bytes '%'-formatting to ASCII is a good idea, but you should base your arguments on a correct description of what's going on. It's not an issue of representability. It's an issue of "we should support this for ASCII because it's a useful, nearly universal convention, and we should not support ASCII supersets because that leads to mojibake." > Then you could have your text /and/ your numbers be in your own > language. My language uses numerals other than those in the ASCII repertoire in a rather stylized way. I can't use __format__ for that, because it depends on context, anyway. Most of the time the digits in the ASCII set are used (especially in tables and the like). I believe that's true for all languages nowadays. > Lots of features can be abused. That doesn't mean we shouldn't > talk about the intended use cases and encourage those. I only objected to claims that issues of "representability" and "what I can do with __format__" support the preferred use cases, not to descriptions of the preferred use cases. _______________________________________________ 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
