Wow. I'm pretty consistent. I still like that. :-)
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:31 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2014-03-27 15:58, Ethan Furman wrote: > >> On 03/27/2014 04:42 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> >>> I also seem to recall Guido saying he liked it [%a], which flipped the >>> discussion from "do we have a good rationale for including it?" to "do >>> we have a good rationale for the BDFL to ignore his instincts?". >>> However, it would be up to Guido to confirm that recollection, and if >>> "Guido likes it" is part of the reason for inclusion of the %a code, >>> the PEP should mention that explicitly. >>> >> >> I checked Guido's posts (Subject contains PEP 461, From contains guido) >> and did not see anything to that effect. >> >> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:09:23 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 460 reboot > > """If we have %b for strictly interpolating bytes, I'm fine with adding > %a for calling ascii() on the argument and then interpolating the > result after ASCII-encoding it.""" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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