On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:10:53 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 03:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Will b'%s' take any arbitrary object, as in:
>>
>> b'Key: %s' % [1, 2, 3, 4]
>> => b'Key: [1, 2, 3, 4]'
>
> No.
Very glad to hear it.
[...]
>>> Can anybody think of a use-case for this particular feature?
>>
>> Not me.
>
> I find that humorous, as %a would work with your list example above. :)
I know. But why would I want to do it? "It won't fail" is not a use-case.
I can subclass int and give it a __getitem__ method that raise SystemExit,
but that's not a use-case for doing so :-)
I cannot think of any reason to want to ASCII-ise the repr of arbitrary
objects, and on the rare occasion that I did, I could say
repr(obj).encode('ascii', 'backslashescape')
I don't object to this feature, but nor do I want it.
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