On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:02:19 +0100 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What does b'%s' % 7 do? > > See Examples of the PEP: > > b'a%sc%s' % (b'b', 4) gives b'abc4' [...] > > And then what? Use the "default" encoding? ASCII? > > Bytes have no encoding. There are just bytes :-)
Therefore you shouldn't accept integers. It does not make sense to format 4 as b'4'. > IMO the typical usecase will by b'%s: %s' % (b'Header', binary_data) Agreed. 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
