[Python-Dev] PEP 461 Final?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 17/01/2014 17:46, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>
> I think we should use %b instead of %s.  In that case, I'm fine with
> %b not accepting numbers.  Using %b clearly indicates we are
> inserting arbitrary bytes.  It also proves a useful code review step
> when translating from Python 2.x.
>

Using %b could cause problems in the future as b is used in new style 
formatting to mean output numbers in binary, so %B seems to me the 
obvious choice as it's also unused.

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Mark Lawrence