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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Tres Seaver writes:
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 > On 01/15/2014 12:57 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
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 > > asciistr *canonizes* something as an ASCII string, and therefore 
 > > compatible with both bytes and str.  It can't *create* such a thing
 > > ex nihilo.
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 > How many miracles must be attested?

You'll have to ask Pope Benno I.