On 02/23/2014 02:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
It's a harm containment tactic, based on the assumption people *will*
want to include the output of ascii() in binary protocols containing
ASCII segments, regardless of whether or not we consider their reasons
for doing so to be particularly good.
One possible problem with %a -- it becomes the bytes equivalent of %s in Python 2 strings, with the minor exception of
how unicode strings are handled (quote marks are added). In other words, instead of %d, one could use %a.
On the other hand, %a is so much more user-friendly than b'%s' % ('%d' %
123).encode('ascii', errors='backslashreplace').
--
~Ethan~
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