On 2014-01-06, at 14:44 , Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> Then, >> the following points must be decided to define the complete list of >> supported features (formatters): >> >> * Format integer to hexadecimal? ``%x`` and ``%X`` >> * Format integer to octal? ``%o`` >> * Format integer to binary? ``{!b}`` >> * Alignment? >> * Truncating? Truncate or raise an error? > > Not desirable IMHO. bytes formatting should serve mainly for templating > situations (i.e. catenate and insert bytestrings into one another). We > cannot start giving text-like semantics to bytes objects without > confusing non-experts.
But having at least some of struct's formatting options available on bytes.format or bytes % would be useful. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com