On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:48:04 -0800 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 02/22/2014 07:47 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 22Feb2014 17:56, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > >> Please let me know if anything else needs tweaking. > >> [...] > >> This area of programming is characterized by a mixture of binary data and > >> ASCII compatible segments of text (aka ASCII-encoded text). > >> [...] > >> %-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. > > > > I would like a single sentence here clarifying that the formatting > > of numeric values uses an ASCII encoding. > > How's this? > > 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. The only difference > will be that the results from these codes will be ASCII-encoded bytes, not > unicode. You can't encode bytes, so it should be "ASCII-encoded text" ;-) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
