[Python-Dev] PEP 461 updates

[Greg]

On 17/01/2014 10:18 a.m., Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 1/16/2014 5:11 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> Guido's successful counter was to point out that the parsing of the
>> format string itself assumes ASCII compatible data,

Nick's initial arguments against bytes formatting were very
abstract and philosophical, along the lines that it violated
some pure mental model of text/bytes separation.

Then Guido said something that Nick took to be an equal and
opposite philosophical argument that cancelled out his original
objections, and he withdrew them.

I don't think it matters whether the internal details of that
debate make sense to the rest of us. The main thing is that
a consensus seems to have been reached on bytes formatting
being basically a good thing.

-- 
Greg