[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3

[Guido van Rossum]

Actually, I had ignored this discussion for so long that I was surprised by
the outcome. My main use case isn't printing a number that may already be a
string (I understand why that isn't reasonable when the output is expected
to be bytes); it's printing a usually numeric value that may sometimes be
None. It's a little surprising to have to use %a for this, but I guess I
can live with it.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 03/27/2014 04:42 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>>
>> I also seem to recall Guido saying he liked it [%a], which flipped the
>>
>> discussion from "do we have a good rationale for including it?" to "do
>> we have a good rationale for the BDFL to ignore his instincts?".
>> However, it would be up to Guido to confirm that recollection, and if
>> "Guido likes it" is part of the reason for inclusion of the %a code,
>> the PEP should mention that explicitly.
>>
>
> I checked Guido's posts (Subject contains PEP 461, From contains guido)
> and did not see anything to that effect.
>
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