On 02/23/2014 03:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On 2014年2月22日 17:56:50 -0800 Ethan Furman <[email protected]> wrote:``%a`` will call :func:``ascii()`` on the interpolated value's :func:``repr()``. This is intended as a debugging aid, rather than something that should be used in production. Non-ascii values will be encoded to either ``\xnn`` or ``\unnnn`` representation.Why is "%a" here? I don't remember: was this discussed before? "Intended as a debugging aid" sounds like a weak justification to me.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/131808.html The idea being if we offer %a, folks won't be tempted to abuse __bytes__. -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ 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