Wow. I'm pretty consistent. I still like that. :-)


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:31 AM, MRAB <python@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."""



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