[Python-Dev] PEP 461 - Adding % and {} formatting to bytes

[Glenn Linderman]

On 1/14/2014 2:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> I think Brett has the right idea: we shouldn't try to accept numbers 
> for %s in binary interpolation. If we limit it to just buffer 
> exporters and objects with a __bytes__ method then the problem goes away.
>
> The numeric codes all exist in Python 2, so the porting requirement to 
> the common 2/3 subset will be to update the cases of binary 
> interpolation of a number with %s to use an appropriate numeric 
> formatting code instead.
>
+1
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