[Python-Dev] PEP 461 Final?
Neil Schemenauer
nas at arctrix.com
Sun Jan 19 02:21:25 CET 2014
Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> So, if %a is added it would act like:
>
> ---------
> "%a" % some_obj
> ---------
> tmp = str(some_obj)
> res = b''
> for ch in tmp:
> if ord(ch) < 256:
> res += bytes([ord(ch)]
> else:
> res += unicode_escape(ch)
> ---------
>
> where 'unicode_escape' would yield something like "\u0440" ?
My patch on the tracker already implements %a, it's simple. Just
call PyObject_ASCII() (same as ascii()) then call
PyUnicode_AsLatin1String(s) to convert it to bytes and stick it in.
PyObject_ASCII does not return non-ASCII characters, no decode error
is possible. We could call _PyUnicode_AsASCIIString(s, "strict")
instead if we are afraid for non-ASCII bytes coming out of
PyObject_ASCII.
Neil
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