6 Jan
2014
6 Jan
'14
1:54 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
BTW, there's a subtlety here: ``%s`` currently means "insert the result of calling __str__", but bytes formatting should *not* call __str__.
Since it derives from the C printf notation, it means "insert string here". The fact that __str__ will be called is secondary to that. I would say it's not a problem for bytes formatting to call __bytes__, or in some other way convert to bytes without calling __str__. Will it be confusing to have bytes and str supporting distinctly different format operations? Might it be better to instead create a separate and very different method on a bytes, just to emphasize the difference? ChrisA