[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 460: Add bytes % args and bytes.format(args) to Python 3.5

INADA Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 04:27:49 CET 2014


> And I think everyone was well intentioned - and python3 covers most of the
> bases, but working with binary data is not only a "wire-protocol
> programmer's"
> problem.  Needing a library to wrap bytesthing.format('ascii',
> 'surrogateescape')
> or some such thing makes python3 less approachable for those who haven't
> learned that yet - which was almost all of us at some point when we started
> programming.
>
>
Totally agree with you.


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INADA Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>
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