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

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/27/2014 11:24 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> The biggest reason to use %s is to support a common code base for 2/3 endeavors.
>
> But it's mostly useless for that purpose. In Python 2, in practice %s doesn't mean "string". [...]

In Python 2 if one is using 'str' as a 'bytes' container, and doing interpolation, %s is the only choice available for 
other 'bytes' (aka other 'str's).  Note that I'm happy to be proven wrong on this point.  :)

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~Ethan~