[Python-Dev] str with base
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Wed Jan 18 02:45:07 CET 2006
On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Adam Olsen wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs,
>>>
>>> My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it.
>>> I'd rather wait until byte is fully defined, implemented, and
>>> released
>>> in a python version before that option is taken away.
>>
>> Has this been proposed? What would %b print?
>
> I don't believe it's been proposed and I don't know what it'd print.
> Perhaps it indicates the bytes should be passed through without
> conversion.
That doesn't make any sense. What is "without conversion"? Does
that mean UTF-8, UCS-2, UCS-4, latin-1, Shift-JIS? You can't have
unicode without some kind of conversion.
> In any case I only advocate waiting until it's clear that bytes have
> no need for it before we use it for binary conversions.
I don't see what business a byte type has mingling with string
formatters other than the normal str and repr coercions via %s and %r
respectively.
-bob
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