On 23 February 2014 08:56, 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.
So we use %a for exactly the same purposes that we used to use %r. > Unsupported codes > ----------------- > > ``%r`` (which calls ``__repr__`` and returns a :class:`str`) is not > supported. But you propose changing the code. I think there would have been a lot less discussion if you just defined %r to do what you propose for %a, as everything would work as people expected. -- Stuart Bishop <[email protected]> http://www.stuartbishop.net/ _______________________________________________ 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