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

[Glenn Linderman]

On 1/12/2014 2:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>   > But bytes already acknowledges an ASCII bias.
>
> True, but that bias is implemented without use of encoding or
> decoding.   b'%d' % (123,) -> b'123' does require encoding, at the
> very least in the sense of type change and serialization.
b'%d'  all by itself, even before using the % operator, does require 
encoding, at the very list in the sense of type change and serialization.
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