[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 2

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nick Coghlan writes:
 > sjt writes:

 > > although introduction of a new format character is a poor man's
 > > consistency, and this is consistency for consistency's sake.  (I don't
 > > have a big problem with that, though.  I *like* consistency!)
 > 
 > It's *not* a new format character, unless you mean "new in Python
 > 3".

Ah, my bad.  Obviously I meant "new to Python 3", and therefore was
just plain wrong.