[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake

[Paul Moore]

On 12 January 2014 01:01, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Supporting formating integers would allow to write b"Content-Length:
> %s\r\n" % 123, which would work on Python 2 and Python 3.

I'm surprised that no-one is mentioning b"Content-Length: %s\r\n" %
str(123) which works on Python 2 and 3, is explicit, and needs no
special-casing of int in the format code.

Paul