9 Jan
2014
9 Jan
'14
7:30 p.m.
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 05:26:04 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
We should probably include format_map for consistency with the str API.
Yes, you're right.
However, I also added bytearray into the mix, as bytearray objects should generally support the same operations as bytes (and they can be useful *especially* for network programming).
So we'd define the *format* string as mutable to get a mutable result out of the formatting operations? This seems a little weird to me.
It also seems weird for a format method on a mutable type to *not* perform in-place mutation.
It's consistent with bytearray.join's behaviour:
x = bytearray() x.join([b"abc"]) bytearray(b'abc') x bytearray(b'')
Regards Antoine.