[issue3982] support .format for bytes
Martin v. Löwis
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Sep 29 23:33:09 CEST 2008
Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
>> I think Martin's suggesting of encoding back to ascii might be
>> the best thing to do
>
> As I understand, you would like to use bytes as characters, like
> b'{code} {message}'.format(code=100, message='OK'). So why no using
> explicit conversion to ASCII? ftp='{code} {message}'.format(code=100,
> message='OK').encode('ASCII').
That's indeed exactly what I had proposed - only that you shouldn't
repeat the .encode('ascii') all over the place, but instead wrap that
into a function (which I proposed to call push_string, along with the
existing .push function.
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