[Python-Dev] use case for bytes.format

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/12/2010 2:04 PM, Zeljko wrote:

This post should have gone to python-list, mirrored as 
gmane.comp.python.general. Please limit any further response to either 
of those (or c.l.p) and delete pydev.

> I'm considering to write some pure python pdf lib from from scratch, but found
> there is no built-in formating for bytes.

Bytes do, but you should use text str for general text manipulation.

> It's very frustrating to use some inefficient surogate funtion, which is gong to
> be called thousands times.

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Terry Jan Reedy