[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake

[Emile van Sebille]

On 01/12/2014 11:30 AM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 01/12/2014 09:26 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> Can you give an example of code that is *nearly* acceptable to you,
>> which works in Python 2 and 3 today, and explain what improvements you
>> would like to see to it in order to use it instead of waiting for a
>> core change?
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> I'm not a developer, but I'm trying to understand how in v3 I accomplish
> what in v2 is easy:
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> len(open('chars','wb').write("".join(map (chr,range(256)))).read())

my bad :

 >>> open('chars','wb').write("".join(map (chr,range(256))))
 >>> len(open('chars','rb').read())
256


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> What's the v3 equivalent?
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> Emile
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