[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010

[Eric Smith]

On 7/23/10 2:44 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Indeed, we meant b'...{}...{}...'.format(x, y). The problem is that it
> can't invoke x.__format__() or y.__format__() since those will return
> text strings instead of bytes. A proposed solution was to try
> x.__bformat__() etc. Another proposed solution was to limit x and y to
> a small set of common types and hard-code their meanings (e.g.
> numbers, bytes, and dates).

If there were an __bformat__ method, what would object.__bformat__() return?

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Eric.