On 2014年2月23日 12:42:59 -0800 Ethan Furman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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__.
Which folks are we talking about? This sounds gratuitous. Also, I don't understand what debugging is supposed to be in the context of bytes formatting. You print debugging output to a text stream, not a bytes stream. And you certainly *don't* print debugging output into a wire protocol. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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