[issue3982] support .format for bytes

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Is there any chance we could just have it work for bytes, ints, and
> floats? That'd solve the immediate need, and it'd be obviously
> correct how to have those behave.

You mean "%s" and "%d"? 

> Punting this to 3.5 basically means we'll have to either wait for
> 3.5, or do something awful like use cffi to grab sprintf to port
> Mercurial.

Or write a pure Python implementation.

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