[Python-Dev] PEP 461: Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray -- Final, Take 3

[Guido van Rossum]

I love it!


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 03/27/2014 11:59 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>
>> PS. I am not trying to be difficult. I honestly don't understand the use
>> case yet, and the PEP doesn't do much to
>> support it.
>>
>
> How's this?
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> ----------------
> Compatibility with Python 2
> ===========================
>
> As noted above, ``%s`` is being included solely to help ease migration
> from,
> and/or have a single code base with, Python 2.  This is important as there
> are modules both in the wild and behind closed doors that currently use the
> Python 2 ``str`` type as a ``bytes`` container, and hence are using ``%s``
> as a bytes interpolator.
>
> However, ``%b`` should be used in new, Python 3 only code, so ``%s`` will
> immediately be deprecated, but not removed until the next major Python
> release.
>
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>
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