On 03/27/2014 11:59 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
PS. I am not trying to be difficult. I honestly don't understand the use case yet, and the PEP doesn't do much to support it.
How's this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Compatibility with Python 2 =========================== As noted above, ``%s`` is being included solely to help ease migration from, and/or have a single code base with, Python 2. This is important as there are modules both in the wild and behind closed doors that currently use the Python 2 ``str`` type as a ``bytes`` container, and hence are using ``%s`` as a bytes interpolator. However, ``%b`` should be used in new, Python 3 only code, so ``%s`` will immediately be deprecated, but not removed until the next major Python release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ 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
