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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/01/2014 22:22, Brett Cannon wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info
> <mailto:steve at pearwood.info>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:55:31AM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
>      > Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>      > >Objects that implement __str__ can also implement __bytes__ if they
>      > >can guarantee that ASCII characters are always returned,
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>      > I think __ascii_ would be a better name. I'd expect
>      > a method called __bytes__ on an int to return some
>      > version of its binary value.
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>     +1
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> If we are going the route of a new magic method then __ascii__ or
> __bytes_format__ get my vote as long as they only return bytes (I see no
> need to abbreviate to __bformat__ or __formatb__ when we have method
> names as long as __text_signature__ now).
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__bytes_format__ gets my vote as it's blatantly obvious what it does. 
I'm against __ascii__ as I'd automatically associate that with ascii in 
the same way that I associate str with __str__ and repr with __repr__.

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Mark Lawrence