On 26 February 2014 13:57, Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes that b'%a' is > > > the obvious way to interpolate representations of arbitrary objects > > into binary formats that contain ASCII compatible segments. > > The only argument that I have sympathy for is > > > %a *should* be allowed for consistency with text interpolation > > although introduction of a new format character is a poor man's > consistency, and this is consistency for consistency's sake. (I don't > have a big problem with that, though. I *like* consistency!)
It's *not* a new format character, unless you mean "new in Python 3". Python 3 text interpolation has included %a for as long as I can recall, specifically as a way of spelling the old Python 2 %r interpolation behaviour now that the Python 3 %r allows Unicode text. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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