[issue3982] support .format for bytes

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 23:34 +0000, Terry J. Reedy a écrit :
> Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
> 
> >it would probably be reasonable to make these protocols use str objects at the heart, and only convert to bytes after the formatting is done.
> 
> I presume this would mean adding 'if py3: out = out.encode()' after
> the formatting. As I said before, this works much better in 3.3+ than
> in 3.2-.

So what? We're discussing a feature that, at best, will be present in
3.4 and not before.

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