On 10 Jan 2014 03:32, "Antoine Pitrou" <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 05:26:04 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We should probably include format_map for consistency with the str API. > > Yes, you're right. > > > >However, I > > > also added bytearray into the mix, as bytearray objects should > > > generally support the same operations as bytes (and they can be useful > > > *especially* for network programming). > > > > So we'd define the *format* string as mutable to get a mutable result out > > of the formatting operations? This seems a little weird to me. > > > > It also seems weird for a format method on a mutable type to *not* perform > > in-place mutation. > > It's consistent with bytearray.join's behaviour: > > >>> x = bytearray() > >>> x.join([b"abc"]) > bytearray(b'abc') > >>> x > bytearray(b'')
Yeah, I guess I'm OK with us being consistent on that one. It's still weird, but also clearly useful :) Will the new binary format ever call __format__? I assume not, but it's probably best to make that absolutely explicit in the PEP. Cheers, Nick. > > > 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/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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