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

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/12/2014 01:59 PM, Mark Shannon wrote:
>
> Why not just use six.byte_format(fmt, *args)?
> It works on both Python2 and Python3 and accepts the numerical format specifiers, plus '%b' for inserting bytes and '%a'
> for converting text to ascii.

Sounds like the second best option!


> Admittedly it doesn't exist yet,
> but it could and it would save a lot of arguing :)

:)

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~Ethan~