Michael Urman <mur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If __format__ receives a format_spec of type bytes, it should return
> bytes. For such cases on objects that cannot support bytes (i.e. for
> str), it can raise. This appears to avoid the need for additional
> methods. (As does Nick's proposal of leaving it out for now.)
That's an interesting idea. I proposed __ascii__ as a analogous
method to __format__ for bytes formatting and to have
%-interpolation use it. However, overloading __format__ based on
the type of the argument could work.
I see with Python 3:
>>> (1).__format__(b'')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: must be str, not bytes
A TypeError exception is what we want if the object does not support
bytes formatting. Some possible problems:
- It could be hard to provide a helpful exception message since it
is generated inside the __format__ method rather than inside the
bytes.__mod__ method (in the case of a missing __ascii__ method).
The most common error will be using a str object and so we could
modify the __format__ method of str to provide a nice hint (use
encode()).
- Is there some risk that an object will unwittingly implement a
__format__ method that unintentionally accepts a bytes argument?
That requires some investigation.
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