On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Open Questions > ============== > > It has been suggested to use ``%b`` for bytes as well as ``%s``. > > - Pro: clearly says 'this is bytes'; should be used for new code. > > - Con: does not exist in Python 2.x, so we would have two ways of doing > the > same thing, ``%s`` and ``%b``, with no difference between them.
The fact that the format string is bytes says 'this is bytes'. Also the fact that you're explicitly encoding any strings used. I'm -1 on having %b as a redundant duplicate of %s. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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
