On 2014年2月24日 09:15:29 -0800 Ethan Furman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/23/2014 02:54 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > > It's a harm containment tactic, based on the assumption people *will* > > want to include the output of ascii() in binary protocols containing > > ASCII segments, regardless of whether or not we consider their reasons > > for doing so to be particularly good. > > One possible problem with %a -- it becomes the bytes equivalent of %s in > Python 2 strings, with the minor exception of > how unicode strings are handled (quote marks are added). In other words, > instead of %d, one could use %a. > > On the other hand, %a is so much more user-friendly than b'%s' % ('%d' % > 123).encode('ascii', errors='backslashreplace').
But why not b'%d' % 123 ? 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