[issue24112] %b does not work, as a binary output formatter

New submission from Bob Stein: `%b%42` produces a ValueError exception instead of outputting '101010' Details here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/29997703/673991 -- messages: 242388 nosy: BobStein priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: %b does not work, as a binary output

[issue24112] %b does not work, as a binary output formatter

Bob Stein added the comment: Ah, you're right, my mistake. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24112 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue24112] %b does not work, as a binary output formatter

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: This is not a bug, since %b is not supported in Python 2, only in Python 3: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations No new features will be added to 2.7, so if you need %b you can use Python 3, or in Python 2.7 you can