On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 01/12/2014 06:16 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: >> >> >> If you do : >> >> --> b'%s' % 'some text' > > > Ignore what I previously said. With no encoding the result would be: > > b"'some text'" > > So an encoding should definitely be specified.
Yes, but the encoding is no business of %s or %. As far as the formatting operation cares, if the argument is bytes they will be copied literally, and if the argument is a str (or anything else) it will call ascii() on it. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
