[Python-ideas] Stop displaying elements of bytes objects as printable ASCII characters in CPython 3

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/15/2014 04:47 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> The current suggestion on the issue tracker is to add __format__ to
> bytes/bytearray/memoryview with a suitable symbolic mini-language to
>  control the formatting details.

PEP 461 specifically did not add back __format__ to bytes/bytearrays.  I think a PEP is appropriate to reverse that 
decision.

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~Ethan~