[issue3982] support .format for bytes
Jean-Paul Calderone
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Tue Oct 2 15:18:35 CEST 2012
Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment:
> The price of maintaining exceeds the potential very limited benefits from the use.
The "very limited benefits" of being able to write I/O code without roughly 3 times code bloat? Perhaps for people who don't write code that does non-trivial I/O, but for the rest of us the benefits are pretty significant.
> I suspect, but have not verified, that having a bytes version of this code would now require an implementation that shared very little with the str version.
The implementation may be difficult, therefore no one should attempt it?
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