On 01/13/2014 03:09 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > If we have %b for strictly interpolating bytes, I'm fine with adding > %a for calling ascii() on the argument and then interpolating the > result after ASCII-encoding it. > > If somehow (unlikely though it seems) we end up keeping %s (e.g. > strictly to ease porting), we could also keep %r as an alias for %a.
Wouldn't %s as an alias for %b simplify porting from Python 2? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com