On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:40:15 +0100 Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 06.01.2014 14:24, schrieb Victor Stinner: > > Hi, > > > > bytes % args and bytes.format(args) are requested by Mercurial and > > Twisted projects. The issue #3982 was stuck because nobody proposed a > > complete definition of the "new" features. Here is a try as a PEP. > > Very nice, thanks. If I was to make a blasphemous suggestion I would > even target it for Python 3.4. (No, seriously, this is a big issue > - see the recent discussion by Armin - and the big names involved show > that it is a major holdup of 3.x uptake.) It would of course depend > a lot on how much code from unicode formatting can be retained or > adapted as opposed to a rewrite from scratch.
>From what I've seen of the unicode formatting code, a lot would have to be rewritten or refactored. It is a non-trivial task, definitely inappropriate for 3.4. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
