On 02/24/2014 11:54 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 24/02/2014 18:40, Ethan Furman wrote:
So, any last thoughts about %a?
I placed it under your nose
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/131636.html but
personally I
wouldn't lose any sleep whether it stays or goes.
So you did, sorry I forgot about it.
So the argument, then, is that %a should be included because it is present in
str?
Note that %r, while it works for str, is rejected from this proposal (primarily because of the possibility of having
non-ASCII characters); while %a doesn't suffer from that possibility (obviously ;) , I think the case needs to be made
that %a is useful for including ... in a mixed binary/ASCII format, but so far nobody has filled in the ... .
--
~Ethan~
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