On Jan 13, 2014, at 02:13 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > >On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> I hear the objections against b'%s' % 'x' returning b"'x'" loud and >> clear, and if the noise about that sub-issue is preventing folks from >> seeing the absurdity in PEP 460, we can talk about a compromise, e.g. >> use %b which would require its argument to be bytes. Those bytes >> should still probably be ASCII-ish, but there's no way to test that. >> That's fine with me and should be fine to Nick as well -- PEP 460 >> doesn't check that your encodings match (how could it? :-), nor does >> plain string concatenation using +. > >I think disallowing %s is the right thing to do, but I definitely think >numbers and %b should be allowed.
I guess I agree. The behavior of b'%s' % 'x' returning b"'x'" is almost always useless at best. (I would have thought maybe %a for ascii() but don't care that strongly.) -Barry
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