On 1/12/2014 11:14 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
And a core principle of the bytes/text separation in Python 3 is that
encoding should never happen implicitly.
That could be. And yet the bytes type already has several concessions
to ASCII encoding.
"%d" % 26 => an explicit request to convert binary integer to a base-10
Unicode/text representation of the integer
b"%d" % 26 => an explicit request to convert binary integer to a base-10
ASCII bytes representation of the integer
The leading "b" seems to be a very explicit request for bytes rather
than characters to me, and seems much more attractive than the proposals
to embed binary in Unicode by abusing Latin-1 encoding.
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