[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Mar 28 03:09:58 CET 2014
On 03/27/2014 03:10 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> R. David Murray wrote:
>> I've done the 'landmark' thing as well, in the string context; that can be
>> very useful when doing incremental test driven development. (Granted, you
>> could do that with __bytes__;
>
> Can't you do it more easily just by wrapping ascii()
> around the argument? That seems sufficient for debugging
> purposes to me.
The problem there is ascii() still returns unicode (okay, okay, str), so you still have to encode it.
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~Ethan~
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