On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:37:11 -0700 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > ``%a`` will call ``ascii()`` on the interpolated value. This is intended > as a debugging aid, rather than something that should be used in production. > Non-ASCII values will be encoded to either ``\xnn`` or ``\unnnn`` > representation. Use cases include developing a new protocol and writing > landmarks into the stream; debugging data going into an existing protocol > to see if the problem is the protocol itself or bad data; a fall-back for a > serialization format; or even a rudimentary serialization format when > defining ``__bytes__`` would not be appropriate [8].
The "use cases" you are enumerating for "%a" are chimeric. Did you *actually* do those things in real life, or are you inventing them for the PEP? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
