[Python-Dev] PEP 460: allowing %d and %f and mojibake

[Georg Brandl]

Am 12.01.2014 09:57, schrieb Paul Moore:
> On 12 January 2014 01:01, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Supporting formating integers would allow to write b"Content-Length:
>> %s\r\n" % 123, which would work on Python 2 and Python 3.
> 
> I'm surprised that no-one is mentioning b"Content-Length: %s\r\n" %
> str(123) which works on Python 2 and 3, is explicit, and needs no
> special-casing of int in the format code.

Certainly doesn't work on Python 3 right now, and never should :)

Georg