On 02/23/2014 03:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:56:50 -0800
Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
``%a`` will call :func:``ascii()`` on the interpolated value's :func:``repr()``.
This is intended as a debugging aid, rather than something that should be used
in production. Non-ascii values will be encoded to either ``\xnn`` or
``\unnnn``
representation.
Why is "%a" here? I don't remember: was this discussed before?
"Intended as a debugging aid" sounds like a weak justification to me.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/131808.html
The idea being if we offer %a, folks won't be tempted to abuse __bytes__.
--
~Ethan~
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