On 03/27/2014 11:24 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
The biggest reason to use %s is to support a common code base for 2/3 endeavors.
But it's mostly useless for that purpose. In Python 2, in practice %s doesn't mean
"string". [...]
In Python 2 if one is using 'str' as a 'bytes' container, and doing interpolation, %s is the only choice available for
other 'bytes' (aka other 'str's). Note that I'm happy to be proven wrong on this point. :)
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~Ethan~
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