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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 14 January 2014 15:15, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> The purity position is probably going to lose in the end, since Guido
> is clearly in the PBP camp at this point, and that's a strong
> indicator (especially since Nick has given up on convincing
> python-dev).  But that does not mean it's entirely invalid.

I didn't give up regarding PEP 460 - Guido pointed out an error in my
assumptions that made my position invalid, and his correct. "Give up"
makes it sound like I got tired of arguing without being convinced
rather than admitting I was just plain wrong.

While I'll still work on the asciistr proposal, that's unrelated to
PEP 460 - it's about making hybrid APIs less painful to write in
Python 3 when you're willing to place the burden of ensuring ASCII
compatibility of binary data on the calling code. That kind of thing
is likely to be a reasonable approach in specific domains (when
writing a web development framework, for example), even though I think
it's an *in*appropriate design for the standard library.

PEP 460 should actually make asciistr easier in the long run, as I now
expect we'll run into some "interesting" issues getting formatting to
produce anything other than text (contrary to what I said elsewhere in
these threads - I hadn't thought through the full implications at the
time).

Cheers,
Nick.

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