Re: [Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5

On 01/11/2014 12:45 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:

FWIW as one of the people who it took Python3 to finally figure out how to actually use unicode, it was the absence of encode on bytes and decode on str that actually did it. Giving bytes a format method would not have affected that either way I don’t believe.

My biggest hurdle was realizing that ASCII was an encoding. -- ~Ethan~