I love it!
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 03/27/2014 11:59 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> >> PS. I am not trying to be difficult. I honestly don't understand the use >> case yet, and the PEP doesn't do much to >> support it. >> > > How's this? > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > Compatibility with Python 2 > =========================== > > As noted above, ``%s`` is being included solely to help ease migration > from, > and/or have a single code base with, Python 2. This is important as there > are modules both in the wild and behind closed doors that currently use the > Python 2 ``str`` type as a ``bytes`` container, and hence are using ``%s`` > as a bytes interpolator. > > However, ``%b`` should be used in new, Python 3 only code, so ``%s`` will > immediately be deprecated, but not removed until the next major Python > release. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > > -- > ~Ethan~ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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