1 Oct
2009
1 Oct
'09
4:39 p.m.
Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:
2. The internal implementation of logger.debug needs to preserve string subclasses properly
But the benefit is that the approach allows anyone to use brace formatting in any API that currently accepts % format (assuming string subclasses don't get mangled).
On the one hand, I'd prefer a more general solution. On the other, I'm nervous about that "assuming string subclasses..." proviso.
You're right to be nervous: it's not hard to mangle subtypes.
class mystr(str): pass ... s = mystr("Abc") s 'Abc' type(s) <class '__main__.mystr'> s2 = s.replace("A", "a") s2 'abc' type(s2) <type 'str'>