[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Mar 27 23:05:55 CET 2014
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:47:59 +0000
Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu Mar 27 2014 at 2:42:40 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
> > Much better, but I'm still not happy with including %s at all. Otherwise
> > it's accept-worthy. (How's that for pressure. :-)
> >
>
> But if we only add %b and leave out %s then how is this going to lead to
> Python 2/3 compatible code since %b is not in Python 2? Or am I
> misunderstanding you?
I think we have reached a point where adding porting-related facilities
in 3.5 may actually slow down the pace of porting, rather than
accelerate it (because people will then wait for 3.5 to start porting
stuff).
Regards
Antoine.
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