Elizabeth Myers added the comment: Also, to add to the discussion:
* Rejecting this because "it doesn't cover every use case" is a red herring at best. If this can't cover your use case, odds are the struct module can *never* cover it. That is no reason to reject it alone; you would need something more heavyweight than the struct module anyway. * If the module can't cover your use case with this feature, it can't cover it right now, so why obstruct it? It covers my use cases for it just fine. * Not everyone needs something more heavyweight, or wants to import some bigger module just because they need variable-length strings. * If the real goal is to discourage use of the struct module, too bad. People are actually using it in production and it serves its (rather small) purpose very well. Other people would like to use the module for their use cases, but presently cannot, and this proposal would help cover their particular cases. * The fact that the netstruct module exists with this feature is proof enough there's demand; not to mention the discussion on the python-ideas ML shows that many people already would find this very useful. It's not like I'm proposing adding braces or some horrible huge proposal, I'm adding two format specifiers. *Two.* ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29328> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
