[Python-Dev] PEP-498: Literal String Formatting

[Brett Cannon]

Can the discussion of PEP 501 be done in a separate thread? As of right now
this thread has not been about PEP 498 beyond Eric's initial email.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 8:56 AM Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com>
wrote:

> As written in the pep, where i'' means 'I have the __interpolate__'
> method, and iu'' means 'i have the __interpolateu__' method (or that
> translators should call these methods), is fine, as the meaning of u ('I
> am unicode, yeah you already knew that') isn't changed.
>
> On 8/8/2015 11:07, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > On 9 August 2015 at 00:05, Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com>
> wrote:
> >> Please do not change the meaning of the vestigial U''.  It was re-added
> to
> >> the language to fix a problem, rebinding it to another meaning
> introduces
> >> new problems.  We have plenty of other letters in the alphabet to use.
> > It's actually being used in the same sense we already use it - I'm
> > just adding a new compile time use case where the distinction matters
> > again, which we haven't previously had in Python 3. (The usage in this
> > PEP is fairly closely analogous to WSGI's distinction between native
> > strings, text strings and binary strings, which matters for hybrid
> > Python 2/3 code, but not for pure Python 3 code)
> >
> > It would certainly be *possible* to use a different character for that
> > aspect of the PEP, but it would be additional work without any obvious
> > gain.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> > P.S. I hop on the plane for the US in a few hours, so I'll be aiming
> > to be bad at responding to emails until the 17th or so. We'll see how
> > well I stick to that plan :)
> >
>
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