[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Mar 30 03:35:02 CEST 2014
On 3/29/2014 8:28 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> The "future" project already contains a full backport of a true bytes
> type, rather than relying on Python 2 str objects:
> http://python-future.org/what_else.html#bytes
That project looks really nice!
> It seems to me that the easiest way to make any forthcoming Python 3.5
> enhancements (both binary interpolation and the other cleanups we are
> discussing over on Python ideas) available to single source 2/3 code
> bases is to commit to an API freeze for *those particular builtins*
> early, and then update "future" accordingly.
I agree. I think syntax changes should be in by the first alpha, if not
before.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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