[Python-ideas] format specifier for "not bytes"

[Daniel Holth]

Yes, if I wanted to pretend I was using JavaScript.

A string-only formatter might cause problems with translation string /
gettext type objects?

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:33:48 -0400
> Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> String only would be perfect. I only single out bytes because they are more
>> like strings than any other type.
>
> You can use concatenation instead of (or in addition to) formatting:
>
>>>> "" + "foo"
> 'foo'
>>>> "" + b"foo"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
>>>> "" + 42
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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