Why not just use six.byte_format(fmt, *args)?
It works on both Python2 and Python3 and accepts the numerical format specifiers, plus '%b' for inserting bytes and '%a' for converting text to ascii.

Admittedly it doesn't exist yet,
but it could and it would save a lot of arguing :)

(Apologies to anyone who doesn't appreciate my mischievous sense of humour)

Cheers,
Mark.
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